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...t attack craft]], which may now be armed with [[guided missile]]s. Since [[battleship]]s and [[cruiser]]s were too cumbersome to chase and kill torpedo boats, a ...ctions, including the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]], the last battleship-to-battleship action, were quite effective.

| publisher = Hyperwar}}</ref> After withstanding battleship fire, she was sunk by a torpedo from ''USS Blackfin'' (SS-322).

*[[USS Arizona BB-39]], a battleship sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor

...eship]]s ever built. She was unlucky to have gone to sea after independent battleship operations, without adequate aircraft escort, became completely obsolete. ' Admiral [[Matome Ugaki]] commanding the battleship division, wrote in his diary <blockquote>This is like losing a part of mys

At Leyte Gulf, he commanded a [[battleship]] division, and Force "A" of the First Striking Force while Admiral [[Takeo

...ts, were built, mostly for river and harbor combat. As seaworthy armored [[battleship]] designs emerged, monitors generally fell out of use. There were a few exc

'''IJN Musashi''' was the second Japanese [[battleship]] of the [[Yamato-class]], and the first of the class to be sunk. Never fir

...f>KMS = navy Schiff</ref> ''Bismarck''''' was a German ''Schlachtschiff'' (battleship) that was commissioned by the navy in 1940. One of two [[Bismarck-class]] b ...untered the [[battlecruiser]] ''[[HMS Hood (1920)|HMS Hood]]'' and the new battleship ''[[HMS Prince of Wales]]'', which was still in shakedown with shipyard tec

...]]s every year, he ordered the [[United States Navy]] to design "[[maximum battleship]]s," the largest battleships that they could use.

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...ited States, which were the traditional names for [[battleship]]s when the battleship was the most important ship type in the Navy.

...del, who claimed in excess of 500 Soviet [[tank (military)|tanks]] and a [[battleship]].

...cks-homeport</ref> that was built in 1980s to berth the [[USS Iowa (BB-61)|Battleship Iowa]] as part of the former [[Naval Station New York]].<ref>[http://www.gl

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...mar]], while exchanging gunfire with Japanese heavy ships, primarily the [[battleship]] ''[[IJN Kongo]]''. She was named in honor of [[Samuel B. Roberts (sailor

* Friedman, Norman, and A. D. Baker. ''Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnaught Era'' (2008) * Hodges, Peter. ''The Big Gun: Battleship Main Armament 1860-1945'', (1981), highly detailed coverage

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...f that year, her torpedo planes hit the [[KMS Bismarck]], making the enemy battleship virtually unmaneuverable and allowing other British warships to close and s

...eously Commanding Officer of USS Yankton. Fitch was Gunnery Officer of the battleship USS Wyoming (BB-32) during most of the First World War. In 1920-27, he had

...[[Royal Navy]] for special missions including an underwater attack on the battleship ''[[KMS Tirpitz]]''. Italy and Britain also used even smaller underwater s