Several ships have been named : , corvette of the , launched in 1885 and used as a prison from 1935. Sunk by a typhoon in 1945. , a class of 2 Japanese battleships and an aircraft carrier of World War II , lead ship of the Yamato class, named after Yamato Province Yamato Maru, originally the that was built in 1914 and transported thousands of Italians to Ellis Island; sold to the Japanese in the 1920s and renamed Yamato Maru, sunk by a US submarine in 1943 in the Philippines Yamato 1, the first working prototype of a ship with a magnetohydrodynamic drive in the early 1990s Fictional Space Battleship Yamato Superbattleship Yamato See also Space Battleship Yamato (disambiguation) Yamato (disambiguation) List of ships named Musashi