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

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    Maine and Texas were part of the "New Navy" program of the 1880s. Texas and BB-1 to BB-4 were authorized as "coast defense battleships", but Maine was ordered as an armored cruiser and was only re-rated as a "second class battleship" when she turned out too slow to be a cruiser.

  3. 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.

  4. Category:Existing battleships - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 18 February 2019, at 21:21 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. List of longest naval ships - Wikipedia

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    United States Navy: Tarawa class: 5: Amphibious assault ship: 254 m (833 ft) 39,400: 2 in reserve, 2 scrapped, 1 sunk United States Navy: Kirov class: 4: Battlecruiser: 252 m (827 ft) 28,000: 1 in service, 1 in refit, 2 scrapped Russian Navy: Yorktown class: 3: Aircraft carrier: 251.38 m (824.7 ft) 25,500: 2 sunk, 1 scrapped United States Navy ...

  6. Category:Battleships of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Battleships of the United States Navy" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *

  7. 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 .

  8. List of battleships of World War II - Wikipedia

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    List of battleships of World War II Ship Operator Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned End of service Fate Alabama United States Navy: South Dakota: fast battleship: 35,980 16 August 1942 9 January 1947 Decommissioned 9 January 1947; museum ship: Almirante Latorre Chilean Navy: Almirante Latorre: super-dreadnought: 28,550 1 August 1920

  9. Iowa-class battleship - Wikipedia

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    The Iowa class became culturally symbolic in the United States in many different ways, to the point where certain elements of the American public – such as the United States Naval Fire Support Association – were unwilling to part with the battleships, despite their apparent obsolescence in the face of modern naval combat doctrine that ...