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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
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.
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 ...
Valemax (68 ships) 360–362 m (1,181–1,188 ft) 380,000–400,000 DWT: 200,000 GT: 2011– In service As of 2018, there are five different ship designs that are referred to as Valemax ships. [14] Berge Stahl: 342 m (1,122 ft) 364,767 DWT: 175,720 GT: 1986–2021 Broken up Berge Stahl was the longest and largest bulk carrier in 1986–2011. [15]
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.
On 15 November 1944, the 1st Battleship Division was disbanded, and Yamato became the flagship of the Second Fleet. [22] On 21 November, while transiting the East China Sea in a withdrawal to Kure Naval Base, [45] Yamato ' s battle group was attacked by the submarine USS Sealion. The battleship Kongō and destroyer Urakaze were lost. [46]
RMS Queen Elizabeth's size record stood for the longest time at over 54 years. This is a timeline of the world's largest passenger ships based upon internal volume, initially measured by gross register tonnage and later by gross tonnage. This timeline reflects the largest extant passenger ship in the world at any given time.
List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the United States Navy during the history of that service. The US Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), [ 1 ] although it does not include early vessels.