The world’s largest battleships are essentially floating monuments; an ode to an era when naval dominance was defined by sheer size, firepower, and resilience. Built primarily in the late 19th and ...

The age of the steel line-of-battleship really began in the 1880s, with the construction of a series of warships that could carry and independently aim heavy guns external to the hull. In 1905, HMS ...

Could battleships return? We explain how missiles, cost, and naval strategy killed the concept and why it isn't likely ...

NOTE: This video is from Battleship Wisconsin’s 80th anniversary. NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The Battleship Wisconsin (BB-64), one of the last and largest battleships in U.S. history, prepares to turn 81 ...

Summary and Key Points: The Imperial Japanese Navy’s carrier Shinano was an ill-fated warship, originally intended as a battleship but converted into an aircraft carrier during World War II. -Despite ...

Joint Microsoft founder Paul Allen has been searching for the Musashi for eight years and finally announced the discovery via Twitter, according to the BBC. Allen (62) told the Washington Post he had ...

(Reuters) - A team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has found the sunken Japanese warship Musashi, one of the largest battleships ever built, where it was sunk during World War Two off the coast ...

Warships are naval vessels operated by the government that are primarily used for combat; they can range in size from tiny torpedo boats to massive aircraft carriers. Because of its armament and ...

At dawn on October 25, 1944, the U.S. Navy escort-carrier group “Taffy 3” sighted the Imperial Japanese Navy’s remaining battleship fleet approaching from the northern horizon off Samar—four ...