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The Zumwalt-class destroyer is a class of three United States Navy guided-missile destroyers designed as multi-mission stealth ships with a focus on land attack. The class was designed with a primary role of naval gunfire support and secondary roles of surface warfare and anti-aircraft warfare.
With a displacement of 4126 31 ⁄ 94 tons burthen she was the world's second largest wooden battleship after her sister ship HMS Howe. [1] She was also the world's second largest warship until the completion of HMS Warrior, Britain's first ironclad battleship, in 1861. Victoria's hull was 79.2 metres (260 feet) long and 18.3 metres (60 feet) wide.
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. Gibbons, Tony (1983). The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers - A Technical Directory of all the World's Capital Ships from 1860 to the Present Day. London, UK: Salamander Books Ltd. p. 272. ISBN 0-517-37810-8.
Most ships of the World War II period had a sloped main belt (internal in some classes), to increase resistance to incoming shells; and no upper belt, to save weight. Thicknesses of belt armor ranged from 10 inches (25 cm) for Strasbourg class - large battlecruisers rather than pure battleships - or from 12 inches (30 cm) for the South Dakota ...
USS Arleigh Burke, the lead ship of her class of guided-missile destroyers The destroyers of the US Navy's Zumwalt class, pictured here sailing with a Independence-class littoral combat ship (rear) are the longest and heaviest destroyers currently in service The Italian Caio Duilio belongs to the Horizon class of Franco-Italian designed first-rate frigates
The Yamato-class ships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, [4] displacing almost 72,000 long tons (73,000 t) fully loaded and armed with nine 460-millimetre (18.1 in) main guns.
The Drake is part of the most voluminous ocean current in the world, with up to 5,300 million cubic feet flowing per second. Squeezed into the narrow passage, the current increases, traveling west ...
USS Laffey (DD-724) is an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, which was constructed during World War II, laid down and launched in 1943, and commissioned in February 1944.The ship earned the nickname "The Ship That Would Not Die" for her exploits during the D-Day invasion and the Battle of Okinawa when she successfully withstood a determined assault by conventional bombers and the most ...