Battleship
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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
Battlecruiser
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The battlecruiser was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. These were similar in displacement, armament and cost to battleships, but differed in form and balance of attributes
HMS Hood, the largest battlecruiser ever built, in Australia on 17 March 1924
HMS Shannon, a Minotaur-class armoured cruiser
Invincible, Britain's first battlecruiser
HMS Queen Mary, the last battlecruiser built before World War I