Several ships have been named Yamato (大和 / ヤマト):

  • Japanese corvette Yamato, corvette of the Katsuragi-class corvette, launched in 1885 and used as a prison from 1935. Sunk by a typhoon in 1945.
  • Yamato-class battleship, a class of 2 Japanese battleships and an aircraft carrier of World War II
  • 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
  • Yamato 1, the first working prototype of a ship with a magnetohydrodynamic drive in the early 1990s

Fictional

See also

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.