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 | | The first warships resembling modern battleships were built in Britain around 1870 with the "Devastation" class of low-freeboard turret ships, a few years after the first battle between ironclad warships (the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia), fought at Hampton Roads, Virginia. |
 | | In the early stages of the Battle of the Atlantic, Germany's large surface units threatened the Atlantic convoys supplying Britain, so the British surface units devoted themselves to protecting the convoys, and seeking out and trying to destroy the German ships, as well lying in wait at Scapa. |
 | | Bismarck was sunk a few days after it destroyed Hood, after being crippled by torpedo bombers from HMS Victorious and HMS Ark Royal, and later the Russian dreadnought Petropavlovsk and Italian Roma were sunk by German air attacks. |
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