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  Battleship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The name "battleship" was initially given to first-, second-, and third-rate ships of the line during the age of sail.
The main battleship nations during this period were Britain, France and Russia, plus newcomers Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, while Turkey and Spain built small numbers of armoured frigates and cruisers, and Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands built smaller "coastal battleships" (pantserschip) of up to 5,000 tons.
Battleships still in existence as museums include the American North Carolina, Alabama and Texas, the English Mary Rose, the British Victory and Warrior, the Swedish Vasa, the Dutch Buffel and Schorpioen and the Japanese Mikasa.
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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" (pantserschip) of up to 5,000 tons.
Apart from some experimental types, battleships built in the period 1870-1905 usually had a displacement of 9,000-16,000 tons, a speed of 13-18 knots, and an armament of four big guns, usually 12" (305mm) in bore diameter, in two centreline turrets, fore and aft, plus secondary and smaller guns.
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.
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 Battleship
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.
Battleships had also played a major role in the Battle of Cape Matapan, on March 28, 1941, when three Italian heavy cruisers were surpised and annihilated by British battleships near Crete.
A battleship's big guns might have a range of twenty miles, but the aircraft carrier had aircraft with ranges of hundreds of miles, and radar was making those attacks ever more effective.
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 List of Turkish sail battleships - Suprari (beta)
This is a list of Turkish and African states large sailing ships and sail battleships of the period 1500-1859:
In 1839, during the war with Egypt, a Turkish admiral defected and sailed virtually the entire Turkish fleet to Alexandria where it joined the Egyptian fleet.
The Egyptian fleet sailed out to meet it, and there was a chance of a major battle until it was realized they were friendly.
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 Articles - Battleship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The main battleship nations during this period were Britain, France and Russia, plus newcomers Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, while Turkey and Spain built small numbers of armoured frigates and cruisers, and Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands built smaller "coastal battleships" (pantserschip) of up to 5,000 tons.
No battleship was lost to heavy bombers on the open seas (Roma was sunk by a guided missile while underway to surrender), which was considered the most grave aerial peril to battleships prior WWII due to Billy Mitchell and SMS Ostfriesland experiment.
Battleships still in existence as museums include the American USS Massachusetts, North Carolina, Alabama and Texas, the British Mary Rose, Victory and Warrior, the Japanese Mikasa, the Swedish Vasa, the Dutch Buffel and Schorpioen, and the Chilean Huascar.
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The first warships resembling modern battleships were built in the late 19thcentury, a few years after the first ironclad warships USS Monitor and CSSVirginia fought at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
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.
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 - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
The German battleships and pocket battleships recorded early successes, with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau surprising and sinking the carrier HMS Glorious off western Norway in June 1940.
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.
Other battleships still in existence as museums include the American North Carolina, Alabama and Texas, the British Mary Rose, Victory and Warrior, the Swedish Vasa, the Dutch Buffel and Schorpion and the Japanese Mikasa.
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 List of Swedish ships of the line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Frigate articles and news from Start Learning Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
British sailing frigates during the period 1640-1860 were rated fourth-rate, fifth-rate and sixth-rate according to the rating system of the Royal Navy.
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As Novgorod, in effect a republic, was threatened by the Swedes and the Teutonic Knights, Alexander was invited to lead the forces of the city.
Since all battleships had been built with armored conning towers, but almost nobody ever actually used them because visiblity from them was so poor, Russian officers, including Admiral Rozhestvensky, were wounded or killed from standing on open bridges as the Japanese shells hit.
On the first night of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, when the Japanese force, with the battleships Hiei and Kirishima, stumbled into a thrown together American force of cruisers and destroyers, precious minutes were lost while armor piercing shells were substituted for the high explosive shells that were intended for bombarding Henderson Field.
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 Battleship - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gun ranges had been increasing from 1000 yards or less to 6000 yards or more over the previous few years, largely to eliminate the threat of recently invented torpedoes with their short range.
The first large warship equipped with steam turbines, she could make 21 knots in a calm sea, allowing her to outrun existing battleships.
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 Talk:Battleship - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
For the sake of uniformity, I believe it would be better if for any country, 'list of steam battleships' and 'list of sail battleships' would be merged into a single list.
It was not until the battleships were absent that the USN learned to fight off the carriers, and when they did the battleships that were incompleted were cancelled and/or scrapped in favor of the aircraft carrier.
I succumbed to curiosity, and looked up "battleship" in the OED, and its first reference is from a poem of 1794, ship of the line being the prevailing term that it eventually displaced.
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From the late 1970s, the Soviet Union (later Russia) built four nuclear-powered Kirov class missile cruisers, one of which is still running as of late 2004.
Note that early battleship-type ships from Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli are listed under Turkey, and Norwegian battleships before 1905 are listed under Denmark.
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Other battleships still in existence as museums include the American North Carolina link (http://www.battleshipnc.com/page1.php) and Texas, the British Mary Rose link (http://www.maryrose.org/), Victory link (http://www.hms-victory.com/) link (http://www.stvincent.ac.uk/Heritage/1797/Victory/index2.html) and Warrior link (http://www.oz.net/~markhow/pre-dred/warrior.htm), the Swedish Vasa link (http://www.abc.se/~m10354/publ/vasa.htm) and the Japanese Mikasa link (http://www.oz.net/~markhow/pre-dred/mikasa.htm) (the only "pre-Dreadnought" type left).
Perhaps this list can be reduced to just the country names?
List of other countries battleships (countries with less than 5 battleships)
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