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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.
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Naval Institute Press. p. 439. ISBN 978-0-87021-907-8. 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.
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 ...
Colorado-class battleship; Iowa-class battleship; Nevada-class battleship; New Mexico-class battleship; New York-class battleship; North Carolina-class battleship; Pennsylvania-class battleship; South Dakota-class battleship (1939) Tennessee-class battleship; Wyoming-class battleship
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The Andrei Pervozvanny-class battleships became the only battleships of the Old World fitted with lattice masts, [a] which were replaced with conventional masts at the beginning of World War I. The imposing ships, the largest in the Russian Navy until the completion of Gangut , [ b ] were dated from the start: by the time of their sea trials ...
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For lists of battleships of the Royal Navy see: List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy; List of ironclads of the Royal Navy; List of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy; List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy; List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy