The Gambier Bay was eventually lost in that battle due to damage sustained, so I suppose that's at least a partial kill for t.
The battleship Yamato, at 72,800 tonnes with nine 46 cm (18.1 inch) main guns, was (with her sister ship Musashi, sunk in October 1944) the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleship ever constructed The IJN Yamato hit the USS Gambier Bay, an escort Carrier, with her main battery of 18″ guns during the Battle off Samar. Displacing 72,000 long tons (73,000 t) at full load, the completed battleships were the. The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up to World War II and completed as designed.A third hull laid down in 1940 was converted to an aircraft carrier, Shinano, during construction.
