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It has been common practice in recent years for U.S. Navy sailors who served on the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) to have their ashes scattered over the wreck site – ...
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It has been common practice in recent years for U.S. Navy sailors who served on the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) to have their ashes scattered over the wreck site – ...
Battleship USS Missouri, a Short Primer: The North Carolina– and South Dakota–class battleships were designed with the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty in mind. Although much more...
The Treaty of Versailles drastically limited the size of the postwar Kriegsmarine, precluding Germany from owning any dreadnought battleships. The Germans could keep (and...
The H44 would have been a 144,000-ton monster battleship. And thankfully, it was never meant to be: Before the outbreak of the Second World War,...
The Story of Why Germany’s World War I Battleship Fleet Died: A little over one hundred years ago, the German High Seas Fleet committed suicide....
Surigao Strait was a blood bath: While the aircraft carriers of Admiral William “Bull” Halsey wreaked terror on the Center Force of Takeo Kurita,...
Bigger isn’t always better. This is especially true in the world of naval design. There have been times when building the largest warship was either...
Imagine a squadron of U.S. battleships approaching a Japanese battle line. From the bridge of the USS Iowa, spotters can clearly make out the...
The Montana-class Battleship Would Have Dominated the Seas – How’d you like to be on the receiving end of a 2,700-pound shell from the...
While the chances of a battleship comeback sometime in the future seem dead, we present what many would agree are the finest battlewagons to...