Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 1944, duk da haka, an tilasta shi zuwa aikin gaba, yana aiki a matsayin babban jirgin ruwa na Mataimakin Admiral Shōji Nishimura na Southern Force a yakin Surigao Strait, aikin kudancin yakin Leyte Gulf
Ka yi haƙuri. A lokacin gwagwarmayar dare a cikin sa'o'i na farko na Oktoba 25 da karfi na Amurka da Australiya, "Yamashiro" ya nutse ta hanyar torpedoes da kuma bindigogi na jirgin ruwa. Nishimura ya nutse tare da jirginsa, kuma ma'aikatan jirgin 10 ne kawai suka tsira.