Historical Formations

This page is a listing of a number of historical naval formations containing ships that appear in KanColle. Note that many of these formations had multiple 'generations', that ships were often part of multiple formations at a time, and that accurate historical records of these units are very difficult to ascertain. Multiple reorganizations occurred over the course of the war as losses took their toll.

Unit Name (English)	Japanese	Unit Members
First Battleship Division : BatDiv 1	第二戦隊	Nagato (Flagship), Mutsu, Later: Yamato (Flagship), Musashi
Second Battleship Division: BatDiv 2	第二戦隊	Ise (Flagship), Hyuuga, Yamashiro, Fusou
Third Battleship Division: BatDiv 3	第三戦隊	Kongou (Flagship), Hiei, Haruna, Kirishima
Fourth Cruiser Division: CruDiv 4	第四戦隊	Atago (Flagship), Takao, Maya, Choukai
Fifth Cruiser Division: CruDiv 5	第五戦隊	Myoukou (Flagship), Nachi, Haguro
Sixth Cruiser Division: CruDiv 59	第六戦隊	Aoba (Flagship), Furutaka, Kako, Kinugasa
First Carrier Division: CarDiv 1	第二航空戦隊	Akagi (Flagship), Kaga, Seventh Destroyer Division
Seventh Destroyer Division: DesDiv 7		Ushio (Flagship), Akebono, Sazanami
Second Carrier Division: CarDiv 2	第二航空戦隊	Souryuu (Flagship), Hiryuu, Twenty-Third Destroyer Division (Kikuzuki Flagship)
Third Carrier Division:  CarDiv 3		Zuihou, Houshou, Mikazuki (Escort)
Fourth Carrier Division: CarDiv 4		Ryuujou
Fifth Carrier Division: CarDiv 5	第五航空戦隊	Shoukaku, Zuikaku, Oboro, Sazanami
First Torpedo Squadron: Desron 1	第一水雷戦隊	Abukuma (Flagship), Sixth Destroyer Division, Twenty-First Destroyer Division, Twenty-Seventh Destroyer Division, Seventeenth Destroyer Division
Sixth Destroyer Division:  DesDiv 6	第六駆逐隊	Hibiki (Flagship), Akatsuki, Inazuma, Ikazuchi
Twenty-First Destroyer Division:  DesDiv 21		Wakaba (Flagship), Hatsuharu, Nenohi, Hatsushimo
Twenty-Seventh Destroyer Division:  DesDiv 27		Shigure (Flagship), Shiratsuyu, Also Hatsuharu-class Ariake and Yugure
Seventeeth Destroyer Division: Desdiv 17		Urakaze (Flagship), Isokaze, Hamakaze, Tanikaze
Second Torpedo Squadron: Desron 2		Jintsuu (Flagship), later Noshiro (Flagship), Sixteenth Destroyer Division, Fifteenth Destroyer Division, Eighteenth Destroyer Division, Eighth Destroyer Division, Thirty-First Destroyer Division
Eighth Destroyer Division: DesDiv 8	第八駆逐隊	Ooshio, Asashio, Michishio, Arashio
Fifteenth Destroyer Division: DesDiv 15		Kuroshio, also Kagerou-class Oyashio, Natsushio (Flagship), Hayashio, later Kagerou
Sixteenth Destroyer Division: DesDiv 16		Yukikaze (Flagship), Amatsukaze, Hatsukaze, Tokitsukaze
Eighteenth Destroyer Division: DesDiv 18	第十八駆逐隊	Shiranui (Flagship), Kagerou, Arare, Kasumi
Thirty-First Destroyer Division: Desdiv 31		Naganami (Flagship), also Yuugumo-class Makinami

This list is under construction and by no means exhaustive.