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Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle.The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone, [4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits ...
Sunken battlecruisers are large capital ships built in the first half of the 20th century that were either destroyed in battle, scuttled, or destroyed in a weapon test. They were similar in size and cost to a battleship , and typically carried the same kind of heavy guns, but battlecruisers generally carried less armor and were faster.
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The List of ships sunk at the Battle of Jutland is a list of ships which were lost during the Battle of Jutland. This battle was fought between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet on 31 May and 1 June 1916, during the First World War. The list is in chronological order of the time of sinking.
List of ships sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy; List of Allied ships lost to Italian surface vessels in the Mediterranean (1940–43) List of wrecked or lost ships of the Ottoman steam navy; List of United States Navy losses in World War II
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An ironclad warship that was run aground by USS Mississippi in the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. CSS McRae Confederate States Navy: 28 April 1862 A gunboat that took heavy damage in a battle with USS Iroquois, and was scuttled off Algiers. MTC-602: 9 September 1965 A barge that sank in the Mississippi River during Hurricane Betsy. The ...
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