The letters identify the type of ship, and the numbers are assigned sequentially. The first ship of the battleship class, the ...

Back when Battleship North Carolina was commissioned in 1941, the ship was thought of as "the world's greatest sea weapon," and it turned out to be just that by participating in more than a dozen ...

The HMS Vanguard Battleship was a Ship Out of Time When the British Royal Navy battleship HMS Vanguard was laid down in 1941, ...

the ship served in the Korean War and the Gulf War before docking in Pearl Harbor and opening as a memorial. It holds the distinction of being the world's last active service battleship.

Decades later, a NOAA team exploring the wreckage site stumbled upon a boot leftover from the ship's prior missions ... 2016 interview with DOD News. The battleship USS Nevada is in drydock ...