The Portland-class USS Indianapolis played an essential role in the outcome of World War II ... was a King George V-class battleship and the most advanced in the British fleet, with the latest ...

All four warships participated in operations during the Second World War and were later returned to service more than once. While the warships will outlive the “Greatest Generation” sailors ...

The following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world's two biggest battleships, Musashi, to carrier planes of the U.S. Third Fleet, which in turn lost its light carrier Princeton. That night ...

Launched in 1939 and commissioned in 1941, the Tirpitz was one of the largest battleships ever built ... throughout the European Theater of World War II. The Tirpitz had up to 320 mm of steel ...

Toy tinplate 'DREADNOUGHT' battleship, made in Germany for the British market ... for the largest naval battleships before the First World War. Its launch started an arms race with all the ...

also known as the Battleship of Presidents, USS IOWA was outfitted in World War II to be the flagship that carried President Franklin Roosevelt across the Atlantic in 1943 for meetings with ...