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Yamato near the end of her fitting out, 20 September 1941 [14] Yamato ' s main battery consisted of nine 45-caliber 46-centimetre (18.1 in) Type 94 guns—the largest ever fitted to a warship, [15] although the shells were not as heavy as those fired by the British 18-inch naval guns of World War I.
The Bismarck class was a pair of fast battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine shortly before the outbreak of World War II.The ships were the largest and most powerful warships built for the Kriegsmarine; displacing more than 41,000 metric tons (40,000 long tons) normally, they were armed with a battery of eight 38 cm (15 in) guns and were capable of a top speed of 30 knots (56 km/h ...
Design A-150, [A] popularly known as the Super Yamato class, [B] was a planned class of battleships for the Imperial Japanese Navy.In keeping with longstanding Japanese naval strategy, the A-150s would have carried six 51-centimeter (20.1 in) guns to ensure their qualitative superiority over any other battleship they might face.
Due in part to the Bismarck ' s superior range-finding and accuracy, it soon sank Hood with an apparent hit to her magazines. Bismarck and Prince of Wales hit each other three times, the damage compelling Prince of Wales to withdraw [8] and Bismarck to call off its commerce raiding operation, as part of its fuel reserve had been contaminated ...
Yamato as she appeared c. 1945 (specific configuration from 7 April 1945) In the original design, the Yamato class' secondary armament comprised twelve 15.5 cm/60 Type 3 guns mounted in four 3-gun turrets (one forward, two amidships, one aft), [53] and twelve 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 guns in six double turrets (three on each side amidships). [53]
[8] [9] One of the most heavily armored ships of all time, the Yamato-class battleship, had main belt of armour up to 410 millimetres (16.1 in) thick. [10] The development of the torpedo and effective naval mines required further considerations for underwater armor, which had not been given much thought in prior eras.
Bismarck: fast battleship: 42,900 25 February 1941 12 November 1944 Sunk 12 November 1944 Turgut Reis Turkish Navy: Brandenburg: pre-dreadnought: 10,013 14 October 1894 Scrapped 1950–1957 Utah United States Navy: Florida: dreadnought: 22,175 31 August 1911 5 September 1944 Sunk 7 December 1941; war memorial: Valiant Royal Navy: Queen ...
The list of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically.. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called 'pre-dreadnought battleship', is not obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895.