Capital ship
Videos
The capital ships of a navy are its most important warships; they are generally the larger ships when compared to other warships in their respective fleet. A capital ship is generally a leading or a p
Aircraft carriers form the main capital ships of most modern-era blue-water navies.
Battleships became the main form of capital ship after sailing vessels fell out of use, and remained so up to World War II. Shown is the German SMS Helgoland.
Ships of the line (of battle) were the capital ships of the era of sail. Pictured is the Spanish Santa Ana, a very large example with 112 guns.
British battlecruiser HMS Repulse
Design 1047 battlecruiser
Videos
Design 1047, also known as Project 1047, was a series of plans for a class of Dutch battlecruisers prior to the Second World War. These large capital ships were intended to counter the threat posed by
A "plan and profile" of Nevesbu's Project 1047; it is not specified if this depicts the final design.
Java moored at Den Helder in 1925. The main defense of the East Indies was entrusted to this ship and her fellow cruisers from the 1920s to the Second World War.
As the Dutch lacked the design experience necessary to produce a modern warship, they hoped that the French would release plans of the Dunkerque class (pictured) to them.
The main guns of Scharnhorst. The turrets and guns of the 1047s would have closely resembled these.