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USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is a museum ship. Completed in 1944, she is the last battleship commissioned by the United States.
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 ...
Yard workers hoist one of nine 16"/50 Mark VII gun barrels aboard the USS Iowa during her construction in 1942. The 16-inch/50 caliber Mark 7 guns of the forward turret of the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) fire at enemy targets ashore on the Korean Peninsula on 30 January 1952 during the Korean War.
Missouri: Iowa: fast battleship: 55,770 11 June 1944 31 March 1992 Museum ship 29 January 1999 Moreno Argentine Navy: Rivadavia: dreadnought: 27,720 26 February 1915 1 October 1956 Sold for scrap 11 January 1957 Musashi Imperial Japanese Navy: Yamato: fast battleship: 65,000 5 August 1942 25 October 1944 Sunk 25 October 1944 Mutsu: Nagato ...
United States Navy: Missouri (BB-11) 1901: Maine class: Pre-dreadnought United States Navy: Missouri (BB-63) 1944-01-29: Iowa class: Fast battleship United States Navy: Last battleship retired by the US Navy – museum ship at Pearl Harbor: Monarch: 1895-05-09: Monarch class: Coastal defence ship Austro-Hungarian Navy: Awarded to UK 1920 ...
USS Missouri (1841), a sidewheel frigate launched in 1841 and destroyed by fire in August 1843 USS Missouri (BB-11) , a Maine -class battleship in service from 1900 to 1922. USS Missouri (BB-63) , an Iowa -class battleship in service (variably) from 1944 to 1992; site of the official Japanese surrender of World War II; now a floating war ...
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.
The H class was a series of battleship designs for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, which were intended to fulfill the requirements of Plan Z in the late 1930s and early 1940s. . The first variation, "H-39", called for six ships to be built, essentially as enlarged Bismarck-class battleships with 40.6 cm (16 in) guns and diesel propulsi