Huh... Warspite and Iowa before they were rescued and recruited back to Japan?

Warspite: "I wonder what kind of shipgirls that they have in Japan"

Hun. At first I thought Warspite would have at least met Kongo before she was completed and turned over to the Japanese, but it turned out I was wrong. Kongo was launched in May-1912 and completed in Portsmouth April-1913. Warspite was laid down in Davenport in Oct-1912 and launched Nov-1913. So they missed each other by just a few months.

gsands.g said:

Warspite: "I wonder what kind of shipgirls that they have in Japan"

Hun. At first I thought Warspite would have at least met Kongo before she was completed and turned over to the Japanese, but it turned out I was wrong. Kongo was launched in May-1912 and completed in Portsmouth April-1913. Warspite was laid down in Davenport in Oct-1912 and launched Nov-1913. So they missed each other by just a few months.

If you want RN ships that have met Kongou you should either look for Princess Royal (constructed on the same yard as Kongou and was berthed next to her while still in construction, there is a pretty good picture out there of her together with Kongou's freshly launched hull) or Renown (The Prince of Wales' Eastern Book claims that Renown was greeted in Yokohama by IJN's 1st battleship squadron and 1st battlecruiser squadron and so depending on what was that squadron's composition during April of 1921 she might have met Kongou and/or her sisters).