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World of Warships. World of Warships is a naval warfare -themed free-to-play multiplayer online game developed and published by Wargaming. [1] Players control warships of choice and can battle other random players on the server, play cooperative battles against bots, or participate in an advanced player versus environment (PvE) battle mode.
Owner. Victor Kislyi (64%) Vladimir Kislyi (25.5%) [1] Number of employees. 1750- (2020) Website. wargaming.com. Wargaming Group Limited (also known as Wargaming.net) is a global video game company headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. The group operates across more than 16 offices and development studios globally. [2]
Warship. For other uses, see Warship (disambiguation). Not to be confused with battleship. A warship or combatant ship is a ship that is used for naval warfare. Usually they belong to the navy branch of the armed forces of a nation, [1] though they have also been operated by individuals, cooperatives and corporations.
The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 90 new ships are in either the planning and ordering stages or under construction, according to the Naval Vessel Register and published reports.
Designated NHL. 14 January 1986. USS Cod (SS/AGSS/IXSS-224) is a Gato -class submarine, the only vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the cod, an important and very popular food fish of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. She was launched on 21 March 1943, and commissioned on 21 June 1943.
Designated VLR. 15 December 2011 [2] USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa -class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is currently a museum ship. Completed in 1944, the ship was assigned to the Pacific Theater during World War II, where she participated in the Philippines campaign and the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
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.
Torpedoed by Italian MAS 15 off Premuda, 10 June 1918 – sinking was filmed. Tango. 1894-11-06. Petropavlovsk class. Pre-dreadnought. Imperial Japanese Navy. Ex-Russian Poltava, captured after the Siege of Port Arthur 1905 – sold back to Russia 1916, renamed Chesma. Tegetthoff. 1912-03-21.