The U.S. Navy’s battleships have long been symbols of naval power and versatility, each with a unique and storied history.

‘Honor of firing the first shot’ Ramsey ... describes D-Day landing “Eisenhower had requested some battleships with big guns,” Ramsey said in an interview this week with Raleigh, North ...

State-of-the-art battleship armament in the late nineteenth ... In 1904, the Japanese and the Americans began thinking about “all big gun” ships, which would carry a larger main armament ...

It is the purpose of this paper to show that the designers of the war vessels of the United States in their first all-big-gun battleship adopted as the emphasized feature of the fighting machine ...

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.