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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cushing attacked Hiei but was sunk by a broadside from ... leaving behind the first Japanese battleship loss since 1904. Ahead lay a second naval battle of Guadalcanal, which would seal the ...