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With better air cover, Musashi would have been a serious threat – and certainly one of the most powerful battleships ever constructed.
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With better air cover, Musashi would have been a serious threat – and certainly one of the most powerful battleships ever constructed.
Efforts will likely continue to save America's retired battleships, but don't expect any to ever sail into combat. That is probably for the best....
Among her notable and final accomplishments was serving as the sets for the 1960 film Sink The Bismarck – noteworthy that she was developed in response...
In the more than 80 years since she was sunk much has been written about Germany’s flagship battleship Bismarck. Named for Prince Otto Von...
The famous WWII-era Alaska-Class Battlecruisers were developed as far back as the 1930s to counter large German ships emerging during the lead-up to WWII....
The USS Texas subsequently underwent a major reconstruction from 1925 to 1927, and the ship was reboilered with six Bureau-Express oil-fired units. Other improvements...
During WWII, the Vittorio Veneto served as the flagship of the Regia Marina’s Mediterranean Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Angelo Iachino (1889-1976).
The Yamatos were the zenith of the Japanese battleship aesthetic, with a beautiful swept-back pagoda mast that managed to convey speed, grace and power.
The second and last of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN’s) Ise-class, Hyūga has the distinction of being the last battleship to be sunk in combat.
By the time World War II started, the Arizona was already becoming somewhat dated. Built in the mid-1910s and commissioned in 1916, the Arizona...