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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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