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Battleship is a 2012 American military science fiction action film based on the board game of the same name. The film was directed by Peter Berg from a script by brothers Jon and Erich Hoeber and stars Taylor Kitsch , Alexander Skarsgård , Brooklyn Decker , Rihanna in her feature film debut, Tadanobu Asano , Hamish Linklater and Liam Neeson .
From the 1950s to 1975, the US Navy had three types of fast task force escorts and one type of convoy escort. The task force escorts were cruisers (hull classification symbols CAG/CLG/CG), frigates or destroyer-leaders (DL/DLG), and destroyers (DD/DDG); the convoy escorts were ocean escorts (DE/DEG), often called destroyer escorts as they retained the designation and number series of the World ...
A US cruiser-destroyer force was deployed in advance of a convoy of US Army troops for Guadalcanal that was due on 13 October. The Tokyo Express convoy was two seaplane tenders and six destroyers; the bombardment group was three heavy cruisers and two destroyers, and the US force was two heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and five destroyers.
Yet, the carriers had a top speed of only 18 knots, far less than the Japanese cruisers and destroyers capable of 30 knots. In addition, none of his ships had a gun larger than 5 inches (130 mm), firing 54-pound (24 kg) shells, but unable to penetrate the Japanese cruiser or battleship armor, and had a limited range of 7 miles (11 km). [13]
The size, armament, and mission of the Type 055 are often compared to the US Navy's Ticonderoga-class cruiser.Measuring 567 feet long, displacing around 10,000 tons, and first entering service in ...
A heavily-armed cruiser similar to a battleship but possessing less armor Battleship A large, heavily armored and heavily gunned powered warship Bilander A ship or brig with a lug-rigged mizzen sail Bireme An ancient vessel, propelled by two banks of oars Birlinn (Scots) Clinker-built vessel, single-masted with a square sail also capable of ...
At 510 feet (160 m) long, a displacement of 9,200 tons, and with an armament of more than 90 missiles, [5] guided-missile destroyers such as the Arleigh Burke class are actually larger and more heavily armed than most previous ships classified as guided-missile cruisers. The Chinese Type 055 destroyer has been described as a cruiser in some US ...
The remaining bridge officers are killed and the crew abandon their sinking ship. On board King George V, Admiral John Tovey orders the newly joined cruiser HMS Dorsetshire to finish Bismarck off. The cruiser fires torpedoes at the German battleship, causing the vessel to sink faster than her crew can escape.