• The Lion class was a class of six fast battleships designed for the Royal Navy (RN) in the late 1930s. They were a larger, improved version of the preceding...
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    combined German and Japanese battleships in the early 1940s, and had therefore started building the Lion-class battleships. However, the time-consuming...
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    The Nelson class was a class of two battleships (Nelson and Rodney) of the British Royal Navy, built shortly after, and under the terms of, the Washington...
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    Alsace class was a pair of fast battleships planned by the French Navy in the late 1930s in response to German plans to build two H-class battleships after...
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  • 1911 and sold in 1922. HMS Conqueror (1939) was to have been a Lion-class battleship. She was laid down in 1939 but construction was suspended later...
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  • was a Bellerophon-class battleship launched in 1907 and sold in 1921. HMS Temeraire (1939) was to have been a Lion-class battleship. She was laid down...
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  • prior to her launch in 1818 HMS Thunderer (1939) was to have been a Lion-class battleship. She was ordered in 1939, but work was suspended in 1942, and she...
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  • 1905. HMS Lion (1910) was a Lion-class battlecruiser launched in 1910 and sold in 1924. HMS Lion (1939) was to have been a Lion-class battleship. She was...
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  • The H class was a series of battleship designs for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, which were intended to fulfill the requirements of Plan Z in the late 1930s...
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    influenced the U.S. Navy's decision to order the Iowa-class fast battleships. The Kongō-class battleships were the most active capital ships of the Japanese...
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    Queen Elizabeth-class battleships were a group of five super-dreadnoughts built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. These battleships were superior in...
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    King George V-class battleships were the most modern British battleships in commission during the Second World War. Five ships of this class were built:...
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    than the King George V class. The UK did complete one final battleship to an "emergency" design, the Vanguard, a modified Lion design that could use the...
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    BL 16-inch Mark II was designed for the Lion-class battleship which was a successor to the King George V class taking advantage of the larger weapon allowed...
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  • for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s HMS Thunderer, a planned Lion-class battleship Thunderer, a 1943 Empire ship originally named Empire Dolly Russian...
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    The Lion class were a pair of battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I. Nicknamed the "Splendid Cats", the ships were a significant improvement...
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    This is a list of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. In 1907, before the revolution in design brought about by HMS Dreadnought...
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  • Siddeley P.1154 Vickers Type 559 CVA-01 Hawker Siddeley P.139B Lion-class battleship Malta-class aircraft carrier Type 43 destroyer Type 82 destroyer Project...
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    König class was a group of four dreadnought battleships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the early 1910s. The class comprised...
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    the armament of a battleship, but faster, lighter, and less heavily armoured. The first three battlecruisers, the Invincible class, were laid down while...
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    implemented in Japan, only three classes of World War I-era capital ships—the Fusō class and Ise-class battleships, and the Kongō-class battlecruisers—remained...
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    to have his way; he had to settle for six battleships and two battlecruisers of the Lion class. The Lions carried eight 13.5-inch guns, the now-standard...
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    dyes were introduced for the armor-piercing shells of the four Kongō-class battleships, with Kirishima's shells using blue dye. Her secondary battery was...
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    North Carolina (BB-55) is the lead ship of the North Carolina class of fast battleships, the first vessel of the type built for the United States Navy...
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  • Thumbnail for French battleship Jean Bart (1940)
    was a French fast battleship, the second and final member of the Richelieu class. Built as a response to the Italian Littorio class, the Richelieus were...
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    Pelayo was a Spanish Navy battleship in commission from 1888 to 1924. She was Spain's first battleship and the most powerful unit of the Spanish Navy at...
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    The King George V-class battleships were a group of four dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy (RN) in the early 1910s that were sometimes termed...
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    Strasbourg was the second and final member of the Dunkerque class of fast battleships built for the French Navy in the 1930s. She and her sister ship...
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  • album by Bon Jovi USS New Jersey (BB-16), a battleship commissioned in 1906 USS New Jersey (BB-62), a battleship commissioned in 1943, now a museum ship in...
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    Dunkerque was the lead ship of the Dunkerque class of battleships built for the French Navy in the 1930s. The class also included Strasbourg. The two ships...
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