South Carolina-class battleships, also known as the Michigan class, were built for the United States Navy in the early twentieth century. Named South...
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The North Carolina class were a pair of fast battleships, North Carolina and Washington, built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s and early 1940s...
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The South Dakota 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...
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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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The first South Dakota class was a group of six battleships that were laid down in 1920 for the U.S. Navy, but were never completed; designed to achieve...
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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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The Delaware-class battleships of the United States Navy were the second class of American dreadnoughts; the class comprised two ships: Delaware and North...
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HMS Dreadnought (1906) (redirect from Dreadnought class battleship)
on an all-big-gun battleship around the same time in 1904, but progress was leisurely and the two South Carolina-class battleships were not ordered until...
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The Pennsylvania class consisted of two super-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy just before the First World War. Named Pennsylvania...
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USS 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...
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in 1866 USS South Carolina (BB-26) was a South Carolina-class battleship launched in 1908 and sold for scrap in 1924 USS South Carolina (CGN-37) was...
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USS South Carolina (BB-26), the lead ship of her class of dreadnought battleships, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor...
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Superfiring (category Battleships)
superfiring was safe. The result was the design for the first South Carolina-class battleship (commissioned in 1910). The first ship with superfiring artillery...
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The United States Navy began the construction of battleships with USS Texas in 1892, although its first ship to be designated as such was USS Indiana...
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in superfiring gun turrets, an idea taken from the American South Carolina-class battleships. The sisters were larger and more powerful than the first generation...
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the 16" gun Colorado-class ships were the last and most powerful battleships built by the U.S. Navy until the North Carolina class entered service on the...
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USS Michigan (BB-27) (category South Carolina-class battleships)
USS Michigan (BB-27), a South Carolina-class battleship, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the 26th state. She was...
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a South Carolina-class battleship that saw action against Mexico and escorted convoys during World War I. USS Michigan (SSGN-727) is an Ohio-class submarine...
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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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the South Carolina Navy USS South Carolina (1860), a screw steamer USS South Carolina (BB-26), a battleship launched in 1908 South Carolina-class battleship...
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The Orion-class battleships were a group of four dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy (RN) in the early 1910s. The first 13.5-inch-gunned (343 mm)...
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The Andrei Pervozvanny class were a pair of pre-dreadnought battleships built in the first decade of the twentieth century for the Baltic Fleet of the...
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Poundstone, a US Navy Lieutenant Commander in the 1900s, see South Carolina-class battleship Search for "Poundstone" on Wikipedia. All pages with titles...
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The Mississippi class of battleships comprised two ships which were authorized in the 1903 naval budget: Mississippi and Idaho; these were named for the...
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Two Minas Geraes-class battleships were built for the Brazilian Navy in the early twentieth century. Named Minas Geraes and São Paulo, these "dreadnought"...
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A fast battleship was a battleship which in concept emphasised speed without undue compromise of either armor or armament. Most of the early World War...
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A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large-caliber guns, designed to serve as capital ships with the most...
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List of battlecruisers List of battleships of World War I List of battleships of World War II List of battleship classes Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger;...
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Dakota-class battleship, laid down but soon canceled by the Washington Naval Treaty in 1920 USS North Carolina (BB-55) is a North Carolina-class battleship launched...
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fully-fledged battleships. The Alaska class certainly resembled contemporary US battleships (particularly the North Carolina class, South Dakota class, and Iowa...
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