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    The "Maximum Battleships", also known as the "Tillman Battleships", were a series of World War I-era design studies for extremely large battleships, prepared...
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    Construction of Battleships, 3; "The Tillman Maximum Battleship," Advocate of Peace, 182. Friedman, US Battleships, 148–49. Friedman, US Battleships, 116; "Battleship...
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  • Thumbnail for Montana-class battleship
    The Montana-class battleships were planned as successors of the Iowa class for the United States Navy, to be slower but larger, better armored, and with...
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  • Thumbnail for Iowa-class battleship
    The Iowa class was a class of six fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940. They were initially intended to intercept fast...
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  • Thumbnail for Yamato-class battleship
    The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up to...
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  • Thumbnail for Russian battleship Potemkin
    The Russian battleship Potemkin (Russian: Князь Потёмкин Таврический, romanized: Kniaz Potyomkin Tavricheskiy, "Prince Potemkin of Taurida") was a pre-dreadnought...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese battleship Yamato
    Yamato (大和) was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before World War II. She and her sister ship...
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  • Thumbnail for North Carolina-class battleship
    fast battleships, North Carolina and Washington, built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In planning a new battleship class...
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  • The Standard-type battleship was a series of thirteen battleships across five classes ordered for the United States Navy between 1911 and 1916 and commissioned...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese battleship Mikasa
    Mikasa (三笠) is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s, and is the only ship of her class. Named after...
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  • Thumbnail for Colorado-class battleship
    The Colorado-class battleships were a group of four United States Navy super-dreadnoughts, the last of its pre-Treaty battleships. Designed during World...
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  • Thumbnail for Kongō-class battlecruiser
    (56 km/h; 35 mph), all four were reclassified as fast battleships. The Kongō-class battleships were the most active capital ships of the Japanese Navy...
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  • Thumbnail for German battleship Bismarck
    and a maximum draft of 9.9 m (32 ft 6 in). The battleship was Germany's largest warship, and displaced more than any other European battleship, with the...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Vanguard (23)
    fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of the Royal Navy's battleships, the...
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  • Thumbnail for King George V-class battleship (1939)
    The 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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  • Thumbnail for HMS Dreadnought (1906)
    HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy battleship, the design of which revolutionised naval power. The ship's entry into service in 1906 represented such an...
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  • Thumbnail for German battleship Tirpitz
    (German pronunciation: [ˈtɪʁpɪt͡s] ) was the second of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine (navy) prior to and during the...
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  • Thumbnail for Fusō-class battleship
    The Fusō-class battleships (扶桑型戦艦, Fusō-gata senkan) were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) before World War...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese battleship Yamashiro
    for Yamashiro Province) was the second of two Fusō-class dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Launched in 1915 and commissioned...
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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for Nevada-class battleship
    dreadnought battleships—Nevada and Oklahoma—built for the United States Navy in the 1910s. They were significant developments in battleship design, being...
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  • The N3 class was a dreadnought battleship class designed for the Royal Navy after World War I, incorporating lessons learned from that conflict. They were...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese battleship Nagato
    Nagato (長門), named for Nagato Province, was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Completed in 1920 as the lead ship...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese battleship Musashi
    after the former Japanese province, was one of four planned Yamato-class battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese battleship Fusō
    name for Japan) was the lead ship of the two Fusō-class dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Launched in 1914 and commissioned...
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  • Thumbnail for South Dakota-class battleship (1939)
    class was a group of four fast battleships built by the United States Navy. They were the second class of battleships to be named after the 40th state;...
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  • The Number 13-class battleship was a planned class of four fast battleships to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. The ships...
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  • Thumbnail for South Dakota-class battleship (1920)
    attitude towards battleships allowed the General Board to propose much more powerful, and expensive, ships for the last two batches. The maximum price was set...
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  • Thumbnail for 16-inch/50-caliber Mark 7 gun
    main armament of the Iowa-class battleships and was the planned main armament of the cancelled Montana-class battleship. Due to a lack of communication...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Wisconsin (BB-64)
    USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is currently a museum ship. Completed in 1944...
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