Kongou

Kongo is the lead ship of her class and the last capital ship to be procured by the Imperial Japanese navy outside of japan. She was initially designed and was built as a battlecruiser in the years before the outbreak of the First world war. Regarded as one of the most heavily armed capital ships of her time, she was indeed a force to be reckoned with. The Fruit of British Naval Design and engineering. However, due to the ennactment of the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922, the growth of the Imperial Japanese Navy became severly prohibited and the navy was left with only three classes of World W...