A map of all of the sunken Imperial Japanese Navy ships of WWII.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Fun Fact: The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) lost 334 warships during World War II. The IJN also lost 300,386 officers and men.
Damn, that’s a lot. Is there a version for the allies?
Great news: Now we can extrapolate where Japanese navy ships can be hit and will not sink.
It cannot be all as the map does not include much of the South Pacific’s
Anyone else immediately look for Yamato?
It took the Japanese 30 years of spending 20-40% of their annual budget to build up the IJN to the point it was capable of fighting the US.
The US matched that output in 1943 *alone*
The Pro-treaty faction was right; Japan wasn’t hindered by the Washington/London Naval Agreements, it was the only thing keeping them alive.
No wonder my fishing line is always getting snagged.
Shipwrecks from the world wars are one of the best sources of “low-background steel”, steel produced before the detonation of the first nuclear bombs. As such it was the only steel suitable particular types of sensitive equipment due to the lack of radioactive fallout contained within it.
Shipwrecks are generally regarded as war graves however many were plundered for this steel.
One of the main legitimate sources for this steel was the German High Seas Fleet of WWI which was scuttled by its crews at Scapa after the end of WWI.
Damn, glad they didn’t have the industry and resources to match the US or the pacific theater would have **really** dragged on.
It was already bad enough, if they actually could have produced ships anywhere near the rate of the US (and more importantly had the oil the fuel them) it would have been a much different war and we may have had to use more nuclear weapons.
From what I’ve read/heard in various places, most of those accessible and not protected have or will be salvaged due to the concentration of pre-nuclear metals from the hulls. This has been done extensively by China over the years, mostly for the purposes of producing extremely sensitive sensors and instruments for scientific or medical purposes.
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Looks like a couple were sunk on dry land. Interesting.
Well that is just horrifying.
War is so fucking dumb lol. All this human effort degrading into powdered iron oxide in a pitch black seabed.
That’s a lot of oil in the water.
Good now i can revive those ships.
Well fuck em’. That’s what they get for floating there like they own the place.
Dont….touch….our….boats
Japan put in so much towards the Navy. It sucks most of them still used wood
I heard sunken ww2 steel (pre nuclear detonation) was really valuable since it doesn’t have nuclear contaminants.
They used to have many ships.
Fuck around, find out!
Not all, this is basically just the Philippines and parts of China and the home islands lol
If they were all Japanese, the Rising Sun flag being *ubiquitous* is unnecessary
Midway changed it… thank goodness!
If interested see crash dive series on audible. Great narration.
Turns out they inadvertently built many submarines
thats just sad
Shimakaze and a couple dozen IJN ships were sunk in Ormoc Bay, close to Leyte Gulf where the Musashi’s wreck lies.
Wow. Them navy boys really clean up square.
Japan: We really built that many ships back then???
I guess i won’t need to worry about azur lane running out of shipgirls
Map of all lost ships. Clearly showing a bunch that got cut off.Â
So many artificial reefs were formed with this, thanks WW2
That’s where people go to get steel with no radiation in it
10,939 Japanese Zeros were made in WW2, nearly 99% which were shot down. Between 1939-1945 with over half being lost in 1944-1945.
All Zeros that still exist today are made from a composite of multiple aircraft.
Japanese imperial losses are staggering when you consider rescue was very very difficult at sea.
Time to google the IJN Hira.
IJN Hira and IJN Hozu, both smaller gunboats, ran aground in shallow water and we’re both subsequently bombed by chinese aircraft.
delete it before the chinese see it and loot them
hirohito was a nutjob.
The true source for rising sea levels.. thanks joe :-/
That’s alot of shitty submarines
those samurai swords are sharp as hell to be carrying them on sail ships.
Damn
This is my HoI4 map when i have no idea how to Navy.
So much money wasted on killing toys.
The US absolutely decimated Japanese ships and shipping during WWII.
Think of how much western media portrays the German UBoat menace in the Atlantic, and the US did that to Japan on steroids.
Karl Doenitz, who was the head of state of Germany after Hitler committed suicide, and commanded the German UBoats during the entire war, got a sentence at the Nuremburg trials for 10 years in prison, which was basically a slap on the wrist for everything he had done. His team successfully argued that he didn’t do anything with his UBoats that the British and Americans didn’t do, especially against Japan, and all of the charges related to his use of Uboats were dropped.