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Vessel World War II Service Awards USS Enterprise (CV-6) 20 Battle Stars. Presidential Unit Citation Navy Unit Commendation [1]. USS San Diego (CL-53) 18 Battle Stars [2] [3] though the Naval Historical center only lists 15 battle stars.
After the 1930s "builders holiday," the USN commissioned ten more battleships of an entirely new style, the so-called fast battleship. These ships began with BB-55 North Carolina and the last ship laid down was BB-66 Kentucky (the last completed ship was BB-64 Wisconsin). These ships were a nearly clean break from previous American design ...
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.
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. Gibbons, Tony (1983). The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers - A Technical Directory of all the World's Capital Ships from 1860 to the Present Day. London, UK: Salamander Books Ltd. p. 272. ISBN 0-517-37810-8.
A romantic style painting of the Battle of Salamis by Wilhelm von Kaulbach. The "largest naval battle in history" is a disputed title between adherents of varying criteria which include the numbers of personnel and/or vessels involved in the naval battle, the total displacement of the vessels involved and sometimes the significance and/or implications of the battle.
Napoléon (1850), the world's first steam-powered battleship. A ship of the line was a large, unarmored wooden sailing ship which mounted a battery of up to 120 smoothbore guns and carronades, which came to prominence with the adoption of line of battle tactics in the early 17th century and the end of the sailing battleship's heyday in the 1830s.
For lists of battleships of the Royal Navy see: List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy; List of ironclads of the Royal Navy; List of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy; List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy; List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy
HMS Benbow leads a line of three battleships. 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]