One of the fallen at Iron Bottom Sound off Gaudalcanal. The Japanese battleship Kirishima.
Type, Kongo class battlecruiser.
Weight, 36, 600tons
Armament, 8 14inch guns.
The Kirishima was heavily damaged off Savo Island by gunfire from the North Carolina class battleship USS Washington (BB-56) and then scuttled by her own crew.
The USS Washington (BB-56).
This is the wreck of the Kirishima.
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