Guns of the Japanese battleship Hiei lie on the bottom of the Pacific. (© Navigea Ltd. / R/V Petrel via Vulcan) A wide-ranging shipwreck survey funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is ...

A expedition launched by the late entrepreneur Paul Allen has discovered the wreck of the Japanese battleship Hiei, the first battleship sunk by U.S. forces during World War II. Hiei was ...

Hiei was reportedly last seen by U.S. Navy forces at 6 p.m., about five miles northwest of Savo, on fire and offloading crew to three Japanese destroyers nearby. The battleship sank at some point ...

Imperial Japanese Navy ship Hiei, which sank on Nov. 14 ... Hiei sank sometime in the evening with a loss of 188 of her crew.” The battleship was found lying upside down on the seabed northwest ...

On the stormy night of November 13, 1942, the Japanese battleship Hiei led a convoy toward Guadalcanal, aiming to reclaim the island from Allied forces. Confident of victory, Vice Admiral Hiroaki ...

While Japan repaired or re-equipped their four carriers and the Americans hastily fixed up Enterprise, the Japanese gathered what they had left for the next bombardment: battleships Hiei and ...

At 31,000 tons, the Hiei was half the size of Imperial Japanese Navy battleships Musashi and Yamato – which boasted the largest naval guns ever fitted on a warship at 18 inches in diameter.

At 31,000 tons, the Hiei was half the size of Imperial Japanese Navy battleships Musashi and Yamato – which boasted the largest naval guns ever fitted on a warship at 18 inches in diameter.