Warships are a critical component of any military, but some ships were designed to intimidate through their sheer size. Here ...

If, of two such fleets, one were made up of four 20,000-ton battleships, each carrying eight 12- inch guns, the whole line would be about 2,100 yards in length; and if the other fleet consisted of ...

The guns are of the 5”/51 type, meaning they fire projectiles five inches in diameter and the barrel is 51 calibers, or just over 21 feet long. The U.S. Navy began using them in 1911, one year ...

He was 19 when he joined the Graff Spee, first in the engine room and later in the guns' turrets. The battleship was sunk by its commander, Capt. Hans Langsdorff, in the River Plate 17 December ...

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About 35 large items--including torpedoes, mines, propellers, the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and the large testing equipment used when the Yamato was being built--will be displayed at the ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.