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  Battleship article - Battleship Battleship (game) Workers' Dreadnought naval history warships - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The main battleship nations during this period were Britain, France and Russia, plus newcomers Germany, Austria and Italy, while Turkey and Spain built small numbers of armored frigates and cruisers, and Sweden and the Netherlands built smaller "coastal battleships" (pantserschip) of up to 5,000 tons.
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 a British battleship force near Crete.
The French Lorraine was scrapped in 1954, Richelieu in 1964 and Jean Bart in 1970.
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 Battleship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Dreadnought was powered with steam turbines, which enabled her to sustain a higher maximum speed for longer, and with less maintenance than its Triple-expansion engine powered predecessors.
The French French battleship Lorraine was scrapped in 1954, French battleship Richelieu in 1964 and French battleship Jean Bart in 1970.
List of Japanese early battleships List of Japanese sail battleships List of Japanese steam battleships List of Japanese dreadnought battleships
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 list_of_greek_battleships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
This is a list of Greek battleships: of the Hellenic Navy.
List of Greek battleships List of Greek battleships List of Greek battleships This is a list of Greek battleships: of the Hellenic Navy.
of French dreadnought battleships List of French sail frigates List of German battleships List of Greek battleships List of Italian battleships List of Italian dreadnought battleships List of Japanese...
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 Battleship
Italian battleship Giulio Cesare The, for compensation of war damages, was ceded to the Novorossiisk.
List of battleship classes of the Royal Navy This is a list of RN.
Richelieu battleship The Richelieu was a Cardinal Richelieu.
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 Battleship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Battleships built in the late 19th century usually had four or so big guns (around 12 inches in diameter), and an assortment of smaller guns.
The other great innovation of the Dreadnought was the introduction of steam turbines, enabling it to sustain its maximum speed for longer and with lessmaintenance than its triple-expansion engine poweredpredecessors and contemporaries were able to do.
A battleship's big guns might have a range of twentymiles, but the aircraft carrier had aircraft with ranges ofhundreds of miles, and radar was making those attacks ever more effective.
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 Battleship Article, Battleship Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Apart fromsome experimental types, battleships built in the period 1870-1905 usually had a displacement of 9,000-16,000 tons, a speed of13-18 knots, and an armament of four big guns, usually 12" (305mm) in bore diameter, in twocentreline turrets, fore and aft, plus secondary and smaller guns.
Battleships had also played a major role in the Battleof Cape Matapan, 27 - 29 March 1941, when three Italian heavy cruisers were surpised and overwhelmed by a Britishbattleship force near Crete.
A battleship's big guns might have a range ofthirty miles, but the aircraft carrier had aircraft with ranges ofseveral hundred miles, and radar was making those attacks ever more effective.
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 French Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) is the naval arm of the French military and is the second-largest Western European navy (the largest being the United Kingdom's Royal Navy).
The French navy is affectionately known as La Royale (the "Royal"), for its supposed attachement to the monarchy; it is to be noted that some of the greatest heroes of the First Republic were in the French Navy (Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca, Robert Surcouf, Latouche-Tréville).
Frigate division of the French Navy in Toulon harbour
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The main battleship nations during this period were Britain, France and Russia, plus newcomers Germany, Austria and Italy, while Turkey and Spain built small numbers of armored frigates and cruisers, and Sweden and the Netherlands built smaller "coastal battleships" of up to 5,000 tons.
World War II With the Washington Naval Treaty of 1924, the major navies of the world scaled back their battleship programs, with numerous ships on all sides scrapped or repurposed.
Other battleships still in existence as museums include the American North Carolina link and Texas, the British Mary Rose link, Victory link link and Warrior link, the Swedish Vasa link and the Japanese Mikasa link (the only "pre-Dreadnought" type left).
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 list_of_french_dukedoms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
List of French dukedoms : The addition of a map of ducal territories would be appreciated.
List of French départements by population List of French dreadnought battleships List of French dukedoms List of French early battleships List of French film directors List of French Football League teams...
List of French dukedoms Portugal This list refers only to the royal dukedoms Duke of Aveiro Duke of Barcelos Duke of Beja Duke of Bragança Duke of Coimbra Duke of Guarda Duke of Porto Duke of Viseu Other...
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 Battleship - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
These ships were called the "main line of battle ships", or battleships for short as they were expected to fight there.
Dreadnought dispensed completely with the smaller calibre secondary armament carried by her immediate predecessors, allowing her to carry more large caliber guns than any other battleship built up to that time.
The other great innovation of the Dreadnought was the introduction of steam turbines, enabling her to sustain its (higher) maximum speed for longer and with less maintenance than its triple-expansion engine powered predecessors and contemporaries were able to do.
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 French Navy, World War 1
French forces in this area initially included seven cruisers and a number of destroyers, torpedo boats and submarines for patrol duty in the western English Channel.
As the French battlefleet was carrying out a sweep into the Adriatic covering the transport of supplies to Montenegro, they experienced the power of the submarine to influence surface ship strategy and tactics.
From March to May 1915, she was part of the French squadron including pre-dreadnoughts "Bouvet", "Charlemagne", "Gaulois" and "Suffren" that joined the Royal Navy in the naval attack on the Dardanelles.
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 RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR - THE DOGGER BANK INCIDENT GOES WRONG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
British battleships fire on the French shore batteries protecting the naval base of Cherbourg where the Russians are sheltering.
The French are obliged to declare war under the treaty but the government is hysterical over being involved in a war.
The french and Russians are particularly keen on this.
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 Science Fair Projects - Category:Lists of ships
List of Allied warships that served at Gallipoli
List of mine warfare vessels of the United States Navy
List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy
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 Dreadnought
Battleships missed their chance for many surface actions because they were being held back for the more "serious" fleet actions that never occurred.
That is because of the French surrender to Germany in 1940.
The South American Dreadnought race was one of the most senseless wastes of resources in world history, though it is testimony to the rivalries, and the resources at the time, of the countries involved.
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 Articles - French battleship Bouvet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The French battleship Bouvet was a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, (probably) named after French admiral François Joseph Bouvet, launched in 1896 and sunk during World War I.
The Bouvet was part of the squadron contributed by the French to the Dardanelles Campaign.
Subsequently two British battleships, the Ocean and Irresistible, were sunk and the battlecruiser HMS Inflexible, as well as the battleships Suffren and Gaulois, were damaged by the same minefield.
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 World Battleships List: French Dreadnoughts
Most of the French fleet was bombarded by the British 3 July 1940 at Mers-el-Kebir, to prevent its capture by the Germans.
The last two French battleships were refitted postwar and survived into the 1960's.
These designs might be considered fast battleships on the basis of their protection.
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 Haze Gray & Underway World Battleship Lists
The World Battleship Lists are a comprehensive, detailed listing of the world's battleships, monitors, major ironclads, battlecruisers, large cruisers, and related vessels.
The lists currently cover ALL US Navy ships, from the start of the ironclad era to the present day, and non-US battleships and battlecruisers from 1906 (the start of the Dreadnought era) to the present day.
Andrew Toppan (actoppan@gwi.net), being sure to state the exact nature of the error, and the list in which it was found.
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 Battleship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
It is notable that most battleship losses occurred while in port.
There were also some old sailing battleships still around.
In these lists, dates in brackets are launching dates unless otherwise noted.
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 World Battleships List: Other Nations' Dreadnoughts
During WWI many battleships being built in England for other countries were taken over for the Royal Navy.
A third dreadnought was authorized in 1912, cancelled.
Conversion started, but industrial problems stopped work from 11/1918 to 3/1919, then work was suspended in 10/1919 and she was nearly converted back to a battleship for resale to Chile.
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 U.S. Navy Battleships - USS Vermont (BB 20)
The battleship then operated off the New England seaboard through mid-August, breaking her periods at sea with a port visit to Salem and alterations at the Boston Navy Yard.
The battleship conducted one midshipman's training cruise that summer, embarking the midshipmen at Annapolis on 6 June 1913.
The battleship transited the Panama Canal on the 10th; touched at Port Tongoi, Chile, on the 24th; and arrived at Valparaiso on the morning of 27 June.
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 U.S. Navy Battleships - USS Wyoming (BB 32)
Sailing on 6 January 1913, the new battleship visited the soon to be completed Panama Canal and then conducted winter fleet maneuvers off Cuba before she returned to Chesapeake Bay on 4 March.
She was docked at New York for repairs between 16 September and 2 October and then ran a full-power trial as she headed south to Norfolk to resume exercises off the Virginia capes before sailing for Europe on 25 October 1913.
Returning to the Tidewater area on 7 April, the battleship carried out tactical exercises and maneuvers along the eastern seaboard, primarily off Block Island and the southern drill grounds-into the late autumn, when she again entered the New York Navy Yard for an overhaul.
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 Category:Lists of ships
List of United States Navy ships named for women
List of military vessels named after living Americans
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 Austrian or Austro-Hungarian Navy, WW1
Leaving Pola on the 9th, she and the three other 'Tegetthof' dreadnoughts of the 1st Battle Division, First Battle Squadron sailed to support a planned cruiser raid on the Otranto Barrage, now believed by the Germans to be a serious obstacle to U-boat movements.
torpedoed and sank French armoured cruiser 'Leon Gambetta' in the southern Adriatic in April 1915
Most sources presume she was lost on mines on or around the 11th or 12th trying to penetrate the harbour defences of Venice.
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 Pre Dreadnought Ships
Naval history of the Pre Dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy shown in antique chromolithographs and photographs of the time.
This book traces all the technological changes which transformed warships from the fully-rigged broadside ironclads of the mid-nineteenth century, through the centre battery ships, early turret vessels and barbette ships, to the turbine-powered Dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers which were to fight in the First World War.
Importantly, he challenges the traditional perception of the Victorian Royal Navy as being reactionary and obstructive to technological change, showing that it was in fact at the forefront of such change, for example in the development and employment of torpedoes and of countermeasures to them.
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /pre_dreadnought.htm   (1302 words)

  
 List of French dreadnought battleships Details, Meaning List of French dreadnought battleships Article and Explanation ...
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List of French dreadnought battleships Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
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 British Battleships
The German main fleet consisted of 16 Dreadnaught Battleships and 6 pre \dreadnaught battleships, 11 Light Cruisers and 72 destroyers.
The British Fleet consisted of Admiral Jellicoe's fleet of 28 Dreadnaught battleships and 3 battle cruisers and Admiral Beatty's force of 6 battle cruisers and 4 fast battleships.
The Germans had planned to sail from the Baltic to the north sea with the plan to engage the British Battle Cruisers in Norwegian waters.
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 List of French dreadnought battleships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is a list of French battleships of the period 1911-44:
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 Battleships of the French Navy
French naval battleships and battleship histories from 1859 to 1945, from the Gloire Class broadside ironclads through the dreadnought Danton class to the Richelieu class.
Use the list below to view battleship class of interest.
Taken off list in 1921 and used for target practice until 1926 Sold in 1927 and broken up for scrap in 1929.
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 German Battleships
History of the German Battleships from 1906 Nassau class dreadnought battleships of the Imperial German Navy to the Bismarck and Tirpitz class battleship of the Kriegsmarine of world war II.
Use side navigation bar for battleship class of interest.
To the right is one of the Wittelsbach Class ships, with six other battleships, of either the Deutschland or Braunschweig Classes.
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