Built as a conventional battleship, and named for the Hyūga Province in Kyushu, Japan, she was completed in 1918, but saw no service in the First World War. However, a number of her commanding ...

The fact remains it took U.S. military might – including the use of nuclear weapons and other explosives – to actually send the Navy's battleships to the bottom of the ocean. On March 31, 1992 ...