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Britain suffered more casualties and lost more ships than Germany but the outcome was a strategic success for the British since it resulted in the successful containment of the German fleet. In terms of total displacement of ships involved, it was the largest surface battle. [6] Philippine Sea, 19–20 June 1944.
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.
280,120 Soviet casualties; German casualties unknown Battle of Aachen: 1944: World War II: 21,000: Gothic Line offensive 1944-1945 World War II: 92,000: Battle of Hürtgen Forest: 1944 –1945 World War II: 63,000 [143] Courland Pocket: 1944 –1945 World War II: 278,819: Battle of Leyte Gulf: 1944: World War II: 12,000 killed [144] Battle of ...
A total of 18 officers, including an Imperial vice admiral and 620 men were killed. 620 1904 Japan: Hatsuse – A Japanese battleship that hit two mines on 15 May and sunk with the loss of 496 crew in a Russian minefield off Port Arthur. 496 1904 Japan: Yoshino – On 14 May, the cruiser sank killing 319 people after a collision. 19 survived ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle.The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone, [4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits ...
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In general, labels for ships of a single class are aligned vertically with the topmost ship in a column carrying the class name. In an attempt to show the full timeline of the actual existence of each ship, the final dates on each bar may variously be the date struck, sold, scrapped, scuttled, sunk as a reef, etc., as appropriate to show last time it existed as a floating object.