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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 29, 2010. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that to avoid sending her to the scrapyards, the Imperial Japanese Navy converted the battleship Hiei* into a training ship?*
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Bulges or Bilges?[edit]

I am no naval warfare expert, but I suspect the addition of bilges is not a defense against torpedoes. I have read of the addition of bulges, filled with shock absorbing materials. Is this what's meant? Hue White 20:27, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anti torpedo bulges, not bilges, were added. -Nibios 19:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Notes[edit]

"On 1 August 1933, work commenced on Hiei's sister-ship Haruna to reconfigure her as a fast battleship.": The connection to the rest of the paragraph isn't clear. I'll remove it for now to help me make some other changes, but feel free to give some context and re-insert it. - Dank (push to talk) 05:43, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Change "#" to "No." per Chicago and MOS. - Dank (push to talk)
"14 inch turret": 14-inch turret. There are lots of these that need hyphens. - Dank (push to talk)
OTOH: "25-mm gun mounts": 25 mm gun mounts. - Dank (push to talk)
"Hiei sortied as part of the with Rear Admiral": ? - Dank (push to talk)
"From 26–30 October": needs a "to", not a dash, per Chicago and WT:MOS. - Dank (push to talk) 06:05, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Demilitarization to training ship[edit]

On the image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_training_ship_Hiei.jpg we can see that only aftmost turret was removed, not the both ones, as the article states. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.52.79.26 (talk) 23:17, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Guadalcanal material wrong[edit]

Hiei did not shell Atlanta's bridge; those shells were friendly fire from San Francisco. Idk what to replace that text with, though. 99.249.94.60 (talk) 06:08, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The ship was struck from shells fired from the USS San Francisco. The information is listed in Hornfoscher's Neptune's Inferno, but I've found an online source that'll substitute. I will correct the pages on the other Kongo Class battlecruisers as well. MG George H Thomas (talk) 18:43, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Date Discrepancy[edit]

All - the date listed here for the sinking of Hiei is 14 Nov 1942. The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal#Aftermath page has the sinking as 13 November. This is probably an error caused by sources reflecting different sides of the international date line. How do we handle this? user:JMOprof ©¿©¬ 15:13, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Damage to Atlanta's Bridge.[edit]

Since Hiei wasn't responsible for the damage to Atlanta's bridge, it may be best to simply remove that information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.239.146.137 (talk) 03:49, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs to be fact checked.[edit]

I found that somebody incorrectly attributed dye shell colors. Apparently it was deliberate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.64.17.141 (talk) 20:37, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]