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  Battleship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built between the 15th and 20th centuries.
Battleships evolved from northern European cogs, and included carracks and galleons in the 16th Century, ships of the line in the 17th and 18th centuries, broadside ironclads and Pre-Dreadnoughts in the 19th century, and Dreadnoughts in the 20th Century.
Battleships still in existence as museums include the American USS Massachusetts, North Carolina, Alabama and Texas, the British HMS Mary Rose and Warrior, the Japanese Mikasa, the Swedish Vasa, the Dutch Buffel and Schorpioen, and the Chilean Huascar.
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 ipedia.com: Battleship Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The name "battleship" was initially given to first-, second-, and third-rate ships of the line during the age of sail.
Battleships had also played a major role in the Battle of Cape Matapan, 27-29 March 1941, when three Italian heavy cruisers were surpised and overwhelmed by three British battleships near Crete.
A battleship's big guns might have a range of thirty miles, but the aircraft carrier had aircraft with ranges of several hundred miles, and radar was making those attacks ever more effective.
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The second Ohio was a ship of the line launched in 1820 and in use as a warship until 1850, then later a receiving ship.
The third USS Ohio (BB-12) was a Maine-class pre-Dreadnought battleship.
The fourth ship of this name was USS Ohio (BB-68), a Montana class battleship cancelled before her keel was laid down.
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