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USS Mississippi entered service in 1917 as a 32,000-ton dreadnought armed with twelve 14-inch guns. She survived two turret disasters and two kamikaze strikes,...
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USS Mississippi entered service in 1917 as a 32,000-ton dreadnought armed with twelve 14-inch guns. She survived two turret disasters and two kamikaze strikes,...
USS New York carried ten 14-inch guns, served with the Grand Fleet and at Iwo Jima, survived two atomic tests and sank as a...
USS Wisconsin was built in Philadelphia in 1,177 days and launched on December 7, 1943, two years after Pearl Harbor. The Iowa-class battleship screened...
Built at Mare Island under a $12.75 million cost limit, USS California displaced 32,300 tons and fired an 18,000-pound broadside. Two torpedoes and a...
USS Alaska and USS Guam cost $45,616,000 each, nearly twice the price of the heavy cruiser USS Baltimore, and each carried nine 12-inch guns...
On July 29, 2026, Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force conducted its first live-fire Tomahawk launch from the destroyer JS Chokai, a Kongo-class Aegis ship commissioned...
USS West Virginia was the last completed Colorado-class battleship, armed with eight 16-inch guns and driven by turbo-electric propulsion. Sunk at Pearl Harbor, she...
In the pre-dawn darkness of February 1, 1944, USS Indiana changed course without telling the rest of its formation and crossed USS Washington’s bow....
USS Washington opened fire on the Japanese battleship Kirishima from 8,400 yards during the night of November 14–15, 1942, close enough for radar-directed 16-inch...
Britain spent £11,530,503 building HMS Vanguard, a figure that excluded her main guns, whose mountings had been built for the World War I battlecruisers...