Battleships
Battleships reigned the high seas for a time and no other ocean-going component was more powerful until the arrival of the aircraft carrier in World War 2.
1913
The Andrea Doria was one of two battleships in the Andrea Doria-class serving the Italian Navy in the 20th century. Construct...
1867
In the latter half of the 1800s, the world was a rapidly changing radical place, particularly in Europe due the expanding ind...
1905
Italian naval engineer and future politician Benedetto Brin (1833-1898) spearheaded a vast resurgence in Italian naval prowes...
1915
The Bretagne battleship served the French Navy throughout the bulk of World War 1 and operated throughout the inter-war years...
1940
In 1935, the keel was laid down for what would become the newest and largest battleship-class ever to be constructed by Franc...
1908
The HMS Agamemnon was the prize of the British Royal Navy and the last of her pre-dreadnought battleships produced. Because s...
1913
The HMS Agincourt of 1913 is perhaps the best known Agincourt of all the ships taking on the name for the Royal Navy. The ...
1587
In 1586 an English galleon was ordered by Sir Walter Raleigh from the shipbuilder R. Chapman located in Depford England. As...
1873
In the late 1870's, Sir Edward J. Reed (1830-1906), the British Admiralty's Director of Naval Construction (DNC), was develop...
1906
When she was commissioned in 1906, HMS Dreadnought was the dominant battleship class of her era. Dreadnought was anointed th...
1920
The HMS Hood stood as the pride and joy of the British Royal Navy for over two decades. She was constructed towards the end o...
1905
The HMS King Edward VII battleship of the British Royal Navy was laid down at Devonport Dockyard on March 8th, 1902, and beca...
1941
The HMS Prince of Wales served the British Navy for a few short years in World War 2 taking part in the damaging that would l...
1946
HMS Vanguard (23) a British Battleship was being built late into World War 2 and when the war in Europe ended come May of 194...
1765
As fate would have it in 1758, the same year of Lord Nelson's birth the Board of Admiralty ordered twelve new ships of the li...
1861
After 1815, the British Royal Navy took on the role of "World's Policeman" by - with some help from American Navy ships like ...
1915
HMS Warspite (03) was a Dreadnought Battleship of the Queen Elizabeth-class in service with the British Royal Navy. The hull...
1900
The IJN Asahi was a pre-dreadnought battleship vessel in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She saw extensive combat in...
1913
In 1911 the Imperial Japanese Diet (Teikoku-gikai) passed funds to support the Naval Emergency Expansion Bill that authorized...
1902
In the First Sino-Japanese War (1894 - 1895), Japan clashed with China over the domination of Manchuria and Korea. The princi...
1941
As the KMS Bismarck was to the Atlantic Theater so too was the IJN Yamato to the Pacific Theater. Undoubtedly the most powerf...
1936
The Admiral Graf Spee was a pre-World War 2 vessel of the Deutschland-class of German warships. She was designed and built du...
1934
Admiral Scheer was the second of the three Deutschland class heavy cruisers ordered and funded by the Reichsmarine of the Wei...
1940
The KMS Bismarck is undoubtedly one of the most famous sea-going vessels of the 20th Century. The Germany super battleship wa...
1933
KMS Deutschland (later becoming the KMS Lutzow) was the lead ship of her class first ordered in 1928 and serving in the Germa...
1939
After World War 1 the British Royal Navy continued to guard its trade routes with a powerful fleet of cruisers. To deal with ...
1941
By 1935, Germany - now under the firm control of Adolph Hitler - backed out of the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty was put i...
1860
France unnerved neighboring Britain when they unveiled their all-wood, steam-powered screw propulsion battleship - the 90-gun...
1852
The screw propeller was first used on a military vessel in 1852 by the French with the introduction of the Napoleon a 90-gun ...
1905
The word "Slava" itself translates to "Glory" in Russian and her representative vessel was the last of the Borodino-class bat...
1917
The German Navy attempted to keep pace with the British Royal Navy prior to World War 1 (1914-1918) through five major Naval ...
1908
The SMS Schleswig-Holstein was a storied vessel of the German Navy that managed to survive all of World War 1 and fight on th...
1774
The Alfred became a 30 gun man-of-war (20 x 9-pounder cannons and 10 x 6-pounder cannons, both smoothbore) for the burgeoning...
1915
The USS Arizona was in service as early as 1914 and saw action alongside British friendlies in World War 1. The battleship wa...
1943
The USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship of the massive and powerful Iowa-class battleships of World War 2. She was followed by...
1944
The USS Missouri (BB-63) is one of the most storied American warships ever constructed. Few can lay claim to having fought in...
1862
Northern spies reported to the US War Department that the Merrimack was being rebuilt as an ironclad. Then Secretary of the ...
1940
To counter the growing threats posed by Japanese warships, particularly the mighty IJN Yamato battleship - considered by most...
1942
Designed and operated in the early 1940's, the USS New Jersey saw extensive combat actions in the Pacific Theater of War assi...
1910
USS South Carolina (BB-26) was the lead ship of her class, being categorized as a "1st class dreadnought battleship". She was...
1942
USS South Dakota was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at the Camden, NJ dock works and launched on June 7, 1941...
1895
The first USS Texas was America's first battleship. The US Navy needed battleships to protect her shores and to be seen as a ...
1941
The USS Washington (BB-56) was part of the United States Navy's two-strong North Carolina-class of battleships commissioned i...
1775
The short-lived eight-gun schooner USS Wasp was born as a two-masted merchantman known as the "Scorpion". The Continental Con...
1944
Though numbered before the USS Missouri (BB 63), the USS Wisconsin (BB 64) actually completed construction before her sister ...
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