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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 ...
Sunken battlecruisers are large capital ships built in the first half of the 20th century that were either destroyed in battle, scuttled, or destroyed in a weapon test. They were similar in size and cost to a battleship , and typically carried the same kind of heavy guns, but battlecruisers generally carried less armor and were faster.
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I have moved the latter four ships into "Lost at sea" and will be looking at the pages for each and every battleship on the list for cause of sinking. – Vami _IV 23:22, 18 July 2017 (UTC) Most of the German battleships listed in the scuttling section were later raised and scrapped, thus they should be in the "sunk and salvaged" section.
List of ships sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy; List of Allied ships lost to Italian surface vessels in the Mediterranean (1940–43) List of wrecked or lost ships of the Ottoman steam navy; List of United States Navy losses in World War II
A Nevada-class battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft during the attack on Pearl Harbor. (See also 17 May 1947.) USS Oklahoma United States Navy: 17 May 1947 The hulk of a Nevada-class battleship which sank while under tow 500 nautical miles (930 km; 580 mi) northeast of Hawaii. (See also 7 December 1941.)
War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 60-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle. Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje Spanish Navy: War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The ship was sunk during the battle. [7] Sirène French Navy
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