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Kongō class battlecruiser (two of them bombarding Henderson Field): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D_class_battlecruiser The Kongō class battlecruisers (金剛型巡洋戦艦 Kongō-gata jun'yōsenkan?) were a class of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) constructed immediately before World War I. Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, the lead ship of the class was the last Japanese capital ship constructed outside of Japan. Displacing 27,500 long tons (27,941 t) upon completion, the vessels of this class were considered the first fully modern capital ships of the IJN.[2] Four vessels of the class (Kongō, Hiei, Kirishima, and Haruna) were completed from 1913 to 1915: Kongō in a Vickers shipyard in Britain, the latter three in Japanese shipyards.

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Kongo was a good bit longer and a lot faster than her contemporary, the USS Texas (and had one fewer rear turrets than the Texas) but the ships were about equal in displacement and both had 14 inch main guns.

The Texas is probably as close as one can come among existing ships.