article_snippet: The Musashi - which, along with the Japanese Navy's sister ship Yamato, was the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleship ever constructed - was sunk by the Japanese Navy's in 1944, taking with it more than 1,000 crew members.
article_snippet: The Musashi was the Japanese Navy's biggest battleship during the Second World War .
article_snippet: Record breaking: the Musashi was the largest armed battleship to ever be made.
article_snippet: Under fire: this was considered the largest naval encounter of World War II.
article_snippet: But in 1944, it was the scene for a battle considered the largest naval encounter of the Second World War - a battle which would be the Musashi's last.
article_snippet: But the Imperial Japanese Navy was attacked by U.S. submarines as the Imperial Japanese Navy moved into position on October 23 - the first of four major encounters over the biggest battle in naval history.
article_snippet: the Imperial Japanese Navy had been struck by at least 17 bombs and 19 torpedoes during the biggest battle in naval history.
article_snippet: the biggest battle in naval history was the largest loss the Imperial Japanese Navy Japanese had ever encountered .
highlights_snippet: Musashi, the Japanese Navy's biggest battleship, was sunk in 1944 .
  