The ship’s keel was laid down on Nov. 4, 1937. The Yamato launched on Aug. 8, 1940, and was commissioned on Dec. 16, 1941.Fully-laden displacement was a massive 72,000 tons, hull length was 862 ...

Built during the twilight of the battleship era, the Yamato embodied the IJN’s ambition to dominate the Pacific through pure naval power. With its unprecedented size, armament, and astounding ...

Built during the twilight of the battleship era, the Yamato embodied the IJN’s ambition to dominate the Pacific through pure naval power. With its unprecedented size, armament, and astounding ...

The Yamato was unique compared to other warships from the era, not only because it was the largest battleship on the sea. It was different in that it embodied the entire Imperial Japanese war ...

The largest battleship ever constructed, Yamato was completed shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, displacing 63,000 tons, and carrying nine 18” guns. ... (IJN) for most of the war.

It is, in Jan Morris’s own words, “a sort of illustrated reverie, a literary meditation” inspired by the battleship itself. Ms. Morris keeps a model of the Yamato at her writing desk.

The Yamato, the subject of British historian Jan Morris' "Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony," was the "mastodonic" yet "very beautiful ship" that U.S. historian Rear Adm. Samuel Eliot ...