Its impressive this pic includes everyone, from kanmusu to Abyssal. Everyone are partying merrily and having a great time.

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It shouldn't belong to class reunion pool, because whatever the class is not alone

laisy said:

Its impressive this pic includes everyone, from kanmusu to Abyssal. Everyone are partying merrily and having a great time.

That is until you realised all the kanmusu after Hatsushimo are those ships historically survived the war, and they are position in the order of them sunk/scuttled/decommissioned...
Edit: Actually, correction, everyone are positioned in the order of when they sunk

and the last 3 were the surviving ones?

WW2 Warship survivor tiers

Survivor:Just make it to the end of war(Majority of WW2 ships that still afloat after 15 August 1945)
Hardened Survivor:Must survive at least 5 years or more after WW2(Hibiki,Yukikaze)
True Survivor:Must remain afloat to this day(Iowa)

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Mutsu sunk before the war but is towards the middle.

Steak said:

Mutsu sunk before the war but is towards the middle.

Mutsu sunk during the war, but in harbor from an accident (or incident not related to enemy actions). June 8, 1943

Miyuki sank before the war from being rammed by a friendly ship (Inazuma). June 29, 1934

Should this really go into the Rogues' Gallery pool? After all, the Abyssals aren't the only characters in this picture.

I feel badly for whomever spent the time tagging this piece..

Oh my god, white doves separate the ships that sank during (and before) the war and the ships that were scrapped by the victors after the war

Kudos to whoever is making the comments

Wow! Kudos to whoever is adding the notes along with history background.

"Resized to 5% of original"

Hooooo, boy.

This is one impressive image in many ways. A big thump up to the artist for drawing them all in "that" order and to the one(s) who tagged this. Had been a while since I last saw so many tags at once.

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Appreciate the work Lunatic is putting into the notes. All dem sub victims.

Seems Enterprise had her work cut out for her at the start of the war, but pickings became slim after that.

BlindSargent said:

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Oh wow... this was really awesome, thanks for sharing.

BlindSargent said:

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that's.. that's quite good..

laisy said:

Its impressive this pic includes everyone, from kanmusu to Abyssal. Everyone are partying merrily and having a great time.

That is until you realised all the kanmusu after Hatsushimo are those ships historically survived the war, and they are position in the order of them sunk/scuttled/decommissioned...
Edit: Actually, correction, everyone are positioned in the order of when they sunk

Oh okay, because you said it, now this picture feels a bit sad....

I remember this artist has contributed to a song about Kancolle fishery last year (which Akagi used chopsticks as drumsticks to strike the heat oven), but I couldn't find any related picture or clip about it in danbooru. Could anyone have the video ?

Related to Hibiki, she's now a diving attraction off Vladivostok, where she was expended as a target on the 70s

Aqualado said:

I remember this artist has contributed to a song about Kancolle fishery last year (which Akagi used chopsticks as drumsticks to strike the heat oven), but I couldn't find any related picture or clip about it in danbooru. Could anyone have the video ?

There you go

Also salute to everyone who contributed to the notes o7

Only Iowa didn't sink.

BlindSargent said:

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Somehow, I predicted that exact cover to be played before clicking the link.

Hmmm that green container i think it's matcha ice cream but i'm not really sure since it's too blurry to read

Orochi_Herman said:

Only Iowa didn't sink.

Well, the ones that were scrapped didn't sink either.

I would assume that none of the Japanese World War ships exist today, either scrapped or used as a target ship?

bakamann said:

I would assume that none of the Japanese World War ships exist today, either scrapped or used as a target ship?

Mikasa.

bakamann said:

I would assume that none of the Japanese World War ships exist today, either scrapped or used as a target ship?

There's one who is still very much visible in Google Maps, but she's rotting away.

NNesico said:

Well, the ones that were scrapped didn't sink either.

True that. Some were sunken, raised then scrapped. Others were 'stillborn' ie. never deployed and scrapped/repurposed midway.

However there is one IJN ship who completely sank, raised and became one of the first JMSDF ship.

NNescio said:

Mikasa.

Technically, Mikasa isn't a World War Ship, she did not participated in any of the two World War battles, (she was active during World War I, but did not see actions). The Russo-Japanese War, a war which Mikasa participated as the flagship of the IJN under Grand Admiral Heihachirou Tougou (a person which Admiral Nimitz admires) happened from 1904 - 1905 is not part of World War I which happened from 1914 - 1918.

During World War I, she was assigned as a coastal defense ship to defend Maizuru. Mikasa was decommissioned after the implementation of the Washington Naval Treaty, she was about to be scrapped but the government agreed that she'd become a memorial ship because of the value she serve during the Battle of Tsushima which put Japan as one of the major naval powerhouses around the globe. Unfortunately she was neglected during the span of the Second World War but during the American Occupation of Japan, thanks to Admiral Nimitz, Mikasa was preserve since like I've said, he admires Admiral Togo, or the Americans just wanted to troll the Russians since Mikasa pretty much symbolized one of their worst defeats.

I don't think any franchise has managed to create these feels for ships since One Piece.
It probably helped that in both cases, the ships were sentient, but still.

TwinLeadersX said:

I don't think any franchise has managed to create these feels for ships since One Piece.
It probably helped that in both cases, the ships were sentient, but still.

Didn't watch One Piece and usually avoid tear jerker stories, so I think the last time I shed tears for ship is when they have to give up on Amaterasu in Starship Operators.

Orochi_Herman said:

However there is one IJN ship who completely sank, raised and became one of the first JMSDF ship.

And that would be who?

nanami said:

And that would be who?

Kikuzuki

Adolf95 said:

Kikuzuki

'Tis not what I read in Wikipedia. From what I gathered, no WWII IJN ship survived and remained in Japan to become part of the JMSDF.

nanami said:

'Tis not what I read in Wikipedia. From what I gathered, no WWII IJN ship survived and remained in Japan to become part of the JMSDF.

As far as I know there is Tachibana-class destroyer Nashi/JDS Wakaba, sunk in 1945, salvaged in 1954, and following being repaired at Kure was commissioned into JMSDF in May of 1956.