WW2 Battleships
The battleship held its swan song in World War 2, superceded by the powerful aircraft carrier.
1913
The Andrea Doria was one of two battleships in the Andrea Doria-class serving the Italian Navy in the 20th century. Construct...
1915
The Bretagne battleship served the French Navy throughout the bulk of World War 1 and operated throughout the inter-war years...
1940
In 1935, the keel was laid down for what would become the newest and largest battleship-class ever to be constructed by Franc...
1920
The HMS Hood stood as the pride and joy of the British Royal Navy for over two decades. She was constructed towards the end o...
1941
The HMS Prince of Wales served the British Navy for a few short years in World War 2 taking part in the damaging that would l...
1946
HMS Vanguard (23) a British Battleship was being built late into World War 2 and when the war in Europe ended come May of 194...
1915
HMS Warspite (03) was a Dreadnought Battleship of the Queen Elizabeth-class in service with the British Royal Navy. The hull...
1900
The IJN Asahi was a pre-dreadnought battleship vessel in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She saw extensive combat in...
1913
In 1911 the Imperial Japanese Diet (Teikoku-gikai) passed funds to support the Naval Emergency Expansion Bill that authorized...
1941
As the KMS Bismarck was to the Atlantic Theater so too was the IJN Yamato to the Pacific Theater. Undoubtedly the most powerf...
1936
The Admiral Graf Spee was a pre-World War 2 vessel of the Deutschland-class of German warships. She was designed and built du...
1934
Admiral Scheer was the second of the three Deutschland class heavy cruisers ordered and funded by the Reichsmarine of the Wei...
1940
The KMS Bismarck is undoubtedly one of the most famous sea-going vessels of the 20th Century. The Germany super battleship wa...
1933
KMS Deutschland (later becoming the KMS Lutzow) was the lead ship of her class first ordered in 1928 and serving in the Germa...
1939
After World War 1 the British Royal Navy continued to guard its trade routes with a powerful fleet of cruisers. To deal with ...
1941
By 1935, Germany - now under the firm control of Adolph Hitler - backed out of the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty was put i...
1908
The SMS Schleswig-Holstein was a storied vessel of the German Navy that managed to survive all of World War 1 and fight on th...
1915
The USS Arizona was in service as early as 1914 and saw action alongside British friendlies in World War 1. The battleship wa...
1943
The USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship of the massive and powerful Iowa-class battleships of World War 2. She was followed by...
1944
The USS Missouri (BB-63) is one of the most storied American warships ever constructed. Few can lay claim to having fought in...
1940
To counter the growing threats posed by Japanese warships, particularly the mighty IJN Yamato battleship - considered by most...
1942
Designed and operated in the early 1940's, the USS New Jersey saw extensive combat actions in the Pacific Theater of War assi...
1942
USS South Dakota was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at the Camden, NJ dock works and launched on June 7, 1941...
1941
The USS Washington (BB-56) was part of the United States Navy's two-strong North Carolina-class of battleships commissioned i...
1944
Though numbered before the USS Missouri (BB 63), the USS Wisconsin (BB 64) actually completed construction before her sister ...
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