Battlecruisers were a unique class of warship designed to combine the heavy guns of a battleship with the speed of a cruiser, ...

Japan’s Kongo-class Battleships Were a British Design – In 1911, few in the UK could have ever expected that the Japanese would become a naval powerhouse – and certainly no one in the ...

Stealthily through a Solomons channel a Jap Kongo Class battleship slipped near dusk on Oct. 25. A squad of Navy SBDs dive-bombed it, streaked back to Guadalcanal. A half-hour later six Army Flying ...

Over several hours early that morning, Sealion attacked the Japanese ships, sinking the battleship Kongo. ... USS Sealion was a Balao-class submarine commissioned in March 1944.