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1 in service, 3 under construction, 10 planned United States Navy: Nimitz class: 10: Aircraft carrier: 332.80 m (1,091.9 ft) 102,000: 10 in service. United States Navy: Kitty Hawk class: 3: Aircraft carrier: 332 m (1,089 ft) 84,914: 1 sunk, 2 scrapped United States Navy: Forrestal class: 4: Aircraft carrier: 326.10 m (1,069.9 ft) 82,402: 4 ...
These HX convoys had been established shortly after declaration of war; and the first sailed on 16 September 1939. [1] Ships in convoy were less vulnerable to submarine attack than ships sailing independently, but the Allies had difficulty providing an adequate number of escorting warships to establish a protective perimeter for detecting and defeating approaching submarines.
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.
German Warships: 1815–1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-790-9. Herwig, Holger (1980). "Luxury" Fleet: The Imperial German Navy 1888–1918. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books. ISBN 1-57392-286-2. OCLC 57239454. Jackson, Robert (2006). The Encyclopedia of Warships: From World War II to the Present Day. Thunder Bay Press.
Patient Zero is a 2018 science fiction horror film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky and written by Mike Le. The film stars Matt Smith , Natalie Dormer , John Bradley , Stanley Tucci , Agyness Deyn , and Clive Standen .
The list of Kriegsmarine ships includes all ships commissioned into the Kriegsmarine, the navy of Nazi Germany, during its existence from 1935 to the conclusion of World War II in 1945. See the list of naval ships of Germany for ships in German service throughout the country's history.
The increase in speed, armour and gun size forced a 40% increase in size over the Indefatigable class and made them the largest warships in the world. [4] Their layout was adapted from the design of the first "super-dreadnought" class, the Orion-class battleships of 1910, with 13.5-inch (343 mm) guns.
The Pacific War Papers: Japanese Documents of World War II. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1597974622. Joseph, Paul (2016). The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1483359908. Jordan, John (2011). Warships after Washington: The Development of Five Major Fleets 1922–1930. Seaforth Publishing.