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- On completion, they are the largest battleship in the world, but… during trial run, a lot of defects are found (armour, cannon, speed). When her cannon are shot, the shockwave reached her bridge. Even after remodelling, she's still slow. Her armour is also thin.
- Her modification took a long time. It’s said that she spent longer time off the fleet than in the fleet.
- She was listed in the Midway campaign, but due to her slow speed, she returned to base without actually participating in any engagement.
- Her first engagement is the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 where she got sunk by the enemy. * Her sister Fuso was also sunk by torpedo in this mission.
- During the night of her sinking, American ships opened another attack. There's around 300 high caliber shots and more than 4000 medium and small caliber shots. * There's only three IJN ships left during this attack. Mogami and Shigure are heavily damaged and is on their way to escape the battlefield, thus all those bullets are mostly aimed on Yamashiro.
- Out of her 1660 crewmembers, only 10 survived (2 officers, 8 crew).