Touting large-caliber guns and torpedos, battleships carried intense firepower and heavy armor. With the advancement of military technology, the need for battleships dwindled. There are only eight US ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era ...

CAMDEN, New Jersey (WPVI) -- The newly painted and repaired USS New Jersey had quite the homecoming on Thursday afternoon. After nearly 12 weeks away from the Camden waterfront, the historic vessel ...

After the dull weeks of winter, the U.S. Navy went forth on its spring maneuvers. The Pacific Fleet, known as the Black Fleet, under Admiral S. S. Robison, composed of 51 vessels, including most of ...

All You Need to Know: After World War II, navies grappled with surplus battleship hulls and considered converting them into “battlecarriers”—hybrid vessels combining battleship firepower with aircraft ...

America’s security and prosperity is at high risk today, largely because of bad policies backed up by too weak armed forces. Consider our U.S. maritime complex. Decades of neglect and inadequate ...

Battleships are generally best known by their guns, and for good reason. A ship carrying eight sixteen-inch guns may have the same weight of broadside as one carrying twelve fourteen-inch guns, but ...

For three days last weekend, the brand new 35,000-ton German battleship Bismarck was mistress of the seas. Against seemingly heavy odds, she had blown to bits Britain’s largest warship, the 42,100-ton ...