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The list of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called ' pre-dreadnought battleship ', is not obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895.
Missouri (BB-63), famous for being the ship on which the Japanese instrument of surrender was signed, was the last battleship in the world to be decommissioned on 31 March 1992. Seven of these ten ships are still in existence. South Dakota, Washington and Indiana were scrapped, but the remainder are now museum ships.
Ilya Podogin – Soviet SSN, Icebound by Dean Koontz, 1995. USS Independence – fictional Wasp -class amphibious assault ship where a large part of The Swarm by Frank Schätzing takes place, 2004. Indra – schooner, Secret Sea by Robb White, 1947. HMS Iphigenia – frigate, The Fighting Temeraire by John Winton, 1971.
The Second World War saw the end of the battleship as the dominant force in the world's navies. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The List of ships of World War II contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of ...
Battleship. The firepower of a battleship's main armament demonstrated by USS Iowa unleashing a broadside volley, during which the muzzle blasts from her 16-inch main guns disturbs the surrounding ocean surface. A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large- caliber guns, designed to serve as capital ...
Most decorated US Naval vessels of World War II. This list catalogs the most honored US Naval vessels of the Second World War. It is placed in descending order of earned Battle Stars; descending accorded unit recognitions; descending ship size by type; and ascending hull number. It contains only vessels that earned fifteen or more Battle Stars ...
This is a list of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. In 1907, before the revolution in design brought about by HMS Dreadnought of 1906, the United Kingdom had 62 battleships in commission or building, a lead of 26 over France and 50 over the German Empire. [1] The launch of Dreadnought in 1906 prompted an arms race ...
The ship, renamed Tango in Japanese service, participated in the Battle of Tsingtao in late 1914, during World War I. She was sold back to the Russians in 1916 and renamed Chesma as her original name was in use by another battleship. The ship became the flagship of the Russian Arctic Flotilla in 1917 and her crew supported the Bolsheviks later ...