Reactivating or building new Iowa-class battleships for the US Navy is an impractical notion. These World War II-era giants, ...

Sailing ships once dominated the seas, and were behind much of the early exploration of the planet. Why don't large modern ...

A look back in history reveals how U.S. battleships played a key role in accommodating the long-range weapon system known as ...

A battleship is not only a floating fortress, but is also a steam power plant of the largest size, with a greater variety and number of engines or machines than is ever dreamed of by the uninitiated.

If it can't do this, then it isn't a battleship; it's a monitor, or "arsenal ship." This means that any modern battleship needs an array of sensors necessary to detect enemy ships, as well as guns ...

Before killing the buzz of why bringing back the Iowa-class ships doesn’t make sense, let’s take a quick history tangent. The modern armored ship entered popular American culture with the 1862 ...

The success of the Japanese attacks made clear that even modern battleships required air cover to operate in hostile areas. Several other battleships were lost in similar circumstances (mostly ...

Although some ships in the late 19th century may be classified as battleships, the first modern battleship was the British HMS Dreadnought, which was commissioned in 1906 as Great Britain and ...

THE POETRY OF THE MODERN BATTLESHIP; Plenty of It for One Who Witnessed the Sham Campaign of the British Navy. Share full article July 3, 1904 Credit... The New York Times Archives ...