Talk:Japanese battleship Yamashiro

Notes

• Paraphrasing from Stille:
  • p. 23: Yamashiro and her sister ship Fusō spent most of the war around Japan, mostly at the anchorage at Hashirajima in Hiroshima Bay. The two ships left Hashirajima on May 29, 1942, to assist the invasion of Midway if needed, but they played no part in that disastrous battle, and returned to Japan. Yamashiro stayed in home waters until August 1943, and the next month became a training ship for midshipmen. - Dank (push to talk) 16:03, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
• From Rohwer (See Fusō): pp. 169, 180 and 366 are the same. p. 367: torpedoes from the destroyer McDermut sank Yamashiro during the day on Oct. 24. - Dank (push to talk) 23:26, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
• P & T (see Fusō), is the same on the first page; on the second page, Kogure Gunjij was commanding Yamashiro. - Dank (push to talk) 23:38, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Searching for operational history

Here's what I've got so far, searching for "yamashiro battleship":

• http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov: no hits.
• NYT: 10 hits, no pre-Leyte news.
• http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov: 67 hits. The only pre-Leyte news was in http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/55045219?searchTerm=yamashiro%20battleship&searchLimits=, in which Hirohito embarked on Yamashiro to view the summer naval maneuvers in 1927. Meh.
  • 'Tain't great, but it does help to fill out the 1920s, which is otherwise pretty sparse.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 02:20, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
    • Okay, I'll add it. - Dank (push to talk) 17:53, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
• Google Books gives "3,810 results": no thanks, but in the first 3 pages, the only thing that looked promising was Whitley, and I've added two bits from Whitley. - Dank (push to talk) 02:02, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
• I've looked at the titles, and more if I could see more, of the first 50 of 138 hits at Google Scholar, and nothing looked interesting.
• Okay that's everything from me, can you think of anything to add, Sturm? - Dank (push to talk) 17:53, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
  • No, I think that we're fine and can just keep the Hirohito bit in reserve in case a reviewer complains about the poorly documented 1920s.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 18:26, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

14" guns

Regarding the comment in the beginning of the article, you state that the Yamashiro and Fuso 'only' had 14" guns and were outmoded by other Japanese Battleships at the start of the War. Only 4 Japanese battleships had larger than 14" guns, the other 8 battleships had 14" guns. 155.178.180.12 (talk) 17:52, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Every class of BBs built since the Washington Naval Treaty had 15" guns or larger other than the KGV-class ships.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:42, 11 August 2023 (UTC)