Yamato - Ships

Ships

  • Yamato 1, the first working prototype of a ship with a magnetohydrodynamic drive
  • Yamato-class battleship, a class of 2 Japanese battleships of World War II
    • Japanese battleship Yamato, lead ship of the Yamato class, named after the Yamato Province
  • Yamato, corvette of the Katsuragi class, launched in 1885 and used as a prison from 1935. Sunk by a typhoon in 1945
  • Yamato Maru, originally the Italian ship Giuseppe Verdi that was built in 1914 and transported thousands of Italians to Ellis Island; sold to the Japanese in the 1920s and renamed Yamato Maru, sunk by a US submarine in 1943 in the Philippines.

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