Japanese Corvette Hiei
Hiei (比叡, Hiei?) was the second and last vessel in the Kongō-class of armored sail-and-steam corvettes of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. Hiei was named after the Mount Hiei, outside of Kyoto, and the name was subsequently used for the World War II battleship Hiei.
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