The concept of a modern battleship has intrigued naval enthusiasts, with some proposals echoing unfinished projects like the ...

The ship was sunk in 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck, with the loss of all but three of the 1,418 crew. The laying of the keel for HMS Hood got under way at John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank ...

Germany's Bismarck gained notoriety for sinking the HMS Hood before being sunk itself. The USS Washington achieved the only ...

With more horsepower and less armour, they were faster than battleships and were ... to be spared for a full refit. Bismarck, in contrast, was a much more modern ship. The 1919 Versailles Treaty ...

Although it suffers from occasional poor wording, due certainly to poor translation, Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship makes a very good read for anyone interested in naval ...

He holds that the torpedo itself is incapable of inflicting serious or decisive damage upon the modern battleship by reason of the recent development of special underwater protection designed to ...

Their target was the German battleship Tripitz, Germany's biggest warship. Nicknamed "The Beast" by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Tirpitz was one of two Bismarck-class battleships built before ...

The Royal Navy did not have “only one modern battleship, the King George V, and two fleet carriers” after the disaster at Singapore. In fact, apart from a number of serviceable battleships ...

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