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  2. 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.

  3. Battleship - Wikipedia

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    Napoléon (1850), the world's first steam-powered battleship. A ship of the line was a large, unarmored wooden sailing ship which mounted a battery of up to 120 smoothbore guns and carronades, which came to prominence with the adoption of line of battle tactics in the early 17th century and the end of the sailing battleship's heyday in the 1830s.

  4. Category:Lists of battleships - Wikipedia

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

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    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 ...

  6. Category:Battleships - Wikipedia

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    العربية; Беларуская; Български; Bosanski; Català; Чӑвашла; Čeština; Dansk; Deutsch; Ελληνικά; Español; Esperanto; Euskara

  7. List of ship types - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of battleships of World War I - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Standard-type battleship - Wikipedia

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    The Standard-type battleship was a series of thirteen battleships across five classes ordered for the United States Navy between 1911 and 1916 and commissioned between 1916 and 1923. [1] These were considered super-dreadnoughts , with the ships of the final two classes incorporating many lessons from the Battle of Jutland .