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...destroyers. All of these models were also used on [[aircraft carrier]]s, [[battleship]]s, and other large combatants.

...ame a critical world commodity; when the [[Royal Navy]] made every other [[battleship]] in the world obsolete with ''[[HMS Dreadnought (1905)]]'', one of its inn

...e — as may be observed in some segments of [[Sergei Eisenstein]]'s ''[[The Battleship Potemkin]]''.

...ury, and their "sledgehammers" were torpedoes that could cripple or sink a battleship — if the torpedo boat could survive to get into range.

{{seealso|Battleship}} ...ot "Jacky" Fisher]], the Royal Navy introduced a revolutionary design of [[battleship]] that was considered to render all earlier battleships obsolete. The first

...ips came in 1919 when he had one year's duty as Executive Officer of the [[battleship]] [[USS South Carolina|USS ''South Carolina'']]. After that, he was assigne ...roduced the [[circular cruising formation]] to the fleet, first based on a battleship and then on the early [[aircraft carrier]], [[USS Langley|USS ''Langley'']]

...ze of the American force, and included nine carriers with 473 planes, 18 [[battleship]]s and [[cruiser]]s, and 28 [[destroyer]]s. Ozawa's pilots boasted of their ...ttle he was highly cautious and inflexible once he had made up his mind. A battleship sailor, he still did not fully appreciate the power of his carriers. The Ja

...2. The first shipboard installations were on the gunnery-training ship (ex-battleship) USS Wyoming (AG-17) and the destroyer USS Coghlan (DD-606) in July, 1942.

...rcise, there was a catastrophic explosion in a 16" gun turret aboard the [[battleship]] ''USS Iowa'''. The cause has never been definitively established, but the | url = http://media.newscientist.com/article/mg13117866.300-battleship-blast-was-accident-not-suicide-.html

...r]] for [[World War II]] service. In 1967, she won the [[Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award]] for the Atlantic Fleet. ...cuted off the coast of [[Spain]]. In 1967, she won the [[Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award]] for the Atlantic Fleet. In January 1968, she was in the Caribb

...ed action was in the [[Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal]], commanding a battleship division with supporting ships. His flagship, [[USS Washington (BB-56)]], d

...lass of 1928, who then served routine tours aboard a [[destroyer]] and a [[battleship]]. In 1934, he qualified as a [[naval aviator]], and formed a friendship wi

*4 [[battleship]]s of the new [[HMS Dreadnought (1905)|''Dreadnought'']] type

...ter, he supported the development of airpower and a halt to building new [[battleship]]s. At the policy level, he was against the invasion of [[Manchuria]] and

...eir attending screen fought bravely against overwhelming odds. While the [[battleship]]s and [[cruiser]]s in suicidal attacks, the [[Light aircraft carrier|"jeep ...e command ship got underway for [[New Guinea]], in company with a powerful battleship-cruiser force, and, although buffeted by 80-knot winds en route, completed

...] whose duties included [[communications intelligence]], [[cruiser]] and [[battleship]] command including on the [[Doolittle Raid]], and psychological operations ...the recent signing of the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. The U.S. battleship force in the Pacific, in particular, was being regarded more and more as th

...and split his forces. Yamamoto sailed with the Main Body, built around a [[battleship]] force; the carrier force, under VADM [[Chuichi Nagumo]], preceded them. **Battleship Division 1

...''Massachusetts'' (BB-59)]] or "Big Mamie," on display as a museum ship in Battleship Cove.]] ...zzie herself, her father, stepmother and cat. Fall River is also known for Battleship Cove, the world's largest collection of [[World War II]] naval vessels, whi

...Pacific beginning in 1941. At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, this battleship USS ''Colorado'' was located at the naval base in San Diego, California, an

After the [[battleship]] ''USS Maine'' mysteriously exploded in Havana harbor on February 25, 1898