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  2. List of longest naval ships - Wikipedia

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    Name Ships in class Type Length Displacement Status Operator USS Enterprise 1: Aircraft carrier: 342 m (1,122 ft) 94,781: 1 decommissioned United States Navy Gerald R. Ford class

  3. List of battleships of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    Maine and Texas were part of the "New Navy" program of the 1880s. Texas and BB-1 to BB-4 were authorized as "coast defense battleships", but Maine was ordered as an armored cruiser and was only re-rated as a "second class battleship" when she turned out too slow to be a cruiser.

  4. List of battleships - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of longest ships - Wikipedia

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    Only ship types for which there exist a ship longer than 300 metres (1,000 ft) are included. For each type, the list includes current record-holders either as individual ships, ship classes or standard designs, up to four runner-ups, and all longer ships that have been scrapped. The list does not include non-self-propelled floating structures ...

  6. Japanese battleship Yamato - Wikipedia

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    Her list was such that the torpedoes – set to a depth of 6.1 m (20 ft) – struck the bottom of her hull. The battleship continued her inexorable roll to port. [22] By 14:20, the power went out, and her remaining 25 mm anti-aircraft guns began to drop into the sea. Three minutes later, Yamato capsized. Her main 46 cm turrets fell off, and as ...

  7. Yamato-class battleship - Wikipedia

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    The Yamato-class battleships had primary armaments consisting of three 3-gun turrets mounting 46 cm (18.1 in)/45 caliber Type 94 naval guns – the largest guns ever fitted to a warship, [6] although they were officially designated as the 40 cm/45 caliber (15.9 in) Type 94 [52] – each of which weighed 2,774 tonnes for the complete mount. [53]

  8. List of largest ships by gross tonnage - Wikipedia

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    Depending on design requirements, some ships have extremely large internal volumes in order to serve their duties. Gross tonnage is a monotonic and 1-to-1 function of the ship's internal structural volume. It does not include removable objects placed outside the deck or superstructure, like the shipping containers of a container ship.

  9. List of battleships of Germany - Wikipedia

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    During operations off Norway, the two ships engaged the battlecruiser HMS Renown [79] and sank the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious— in the engagement with Glorious, Scharnhorst achieved one of the longest-range naval gunfire hits in history. [80] In early 1942, the two ships made a daylight dash up the English Channel from occupied France to ...