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A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large guns, designed to serve as a capital ship. From their advent in the late 1880s, battleships were among the larg
USS Iowa firing a broadside
Napoléon (1850), the world's first steam-powered battleship
Gloire (1859), the first ocean-going ironclad warship
The German Brandenburg, which carried six heavy guns, rather than the standard four
Kantai Kessen
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The Decisive Battle Doctrine was a naval strategy adopted by the Imperial Japanese Navy prior to the Second World War. The theory was derived from the writings of American naval historian Alfred Thaye
Japanese battleships Yamato and Musashi, were a central element of Japan's "Decisive Battle" doctrine
Fusō on her sea trials during the First World War, 24 August 1915
Japanese battleships in line astern formation.
Battleship Mutsu in 1940