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An animated naval gun turret, based on a British 15 inch gun turret Mark 1; see also a version with labels. The figure represents a person 5' 8" high (172 cm). It was used on the Queen Elizabeth and Revenge classes, as well as the unique Vanguard; the Renown class and unique Hood battlecruisers; the Glorious-class large light cruisers; the Erebus, Marshal Ney, and Roberts-class monitors; and several coastal artillery batteries ashore.
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Cutaway of a main battery turret of an Iowa-class battleship. The largest of the class' armament, each ship carries three of the 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun each on three gun turrets: two forward and one aft in a configuration known as "2-A-1". The guns are 66 feet (20 m) long (50 times their 16-inch (410 mm) bore, or 50 calibers, from breechface to muzzle). About 43 feet (13 m) protrudes from the gun house. Each gun weighs about 239,000 pounds (108 000 kg) without the breech, or 267,900 pounds with the breech.
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The Lexington class battlecruisers were the only class of battlecruiser to ever be ordered by the United States Navy, and the only to be officially referred to as such. Six—given names from the American Revolutionary War—were planned as part of the massive 1916 building program, but their construction was repeatedly postponed in favor of escort ships and anti-submarine vessels.
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The "Baker" explosion, part of Operation Crossroads, was a nuclear weapon test by the United States military at Bikini Atoll on 25 July 1946. 95 target vessels were positioned in various places within the two blast zones, including four battleships. USS Arkansas (the large black spot at the base of the pillar) survived the Able blast with little damage, but was devastated by Baker and capsized. USS Nevada was the target for Able, but a 1,700 yards (1,600 m) miss allowed her to survive, be exposed at Baker, used as a decontamination testbed, and sunk as a gunnery practice target two years later, a fate also shared by USS New York. The Japanese battleship Nagato was spared significant damage at Able, but the underwater explosion at Baker damaged her enough to capsize and sink five days later.
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The American battleship Pennsylvania leads Colorado, Louisville, Portland, and Columbia into Lingayen Gulf before the landing on Luzon, Philippines in January 1945. Battleships and other big gun naval vessels that served in the Pacific Theatre during World War II were used primarily for offshore bombardment of enemy positions and as anti-aircraft screens for aircraft carriers.
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The German battlecruiser SMS Moltke (1910) at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1912. The lead ship of the Moltke-class battlecruisers, she served in the Kaiserliche Marine from her commissioning on 30 August 1911 until her scuttling at Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919. She fought through several battles in World War I, including Dogger Bank, Jutland, Gulf of Riga, and Operation Albion.
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USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of nine 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 guns and six 5"/38 caliber guns during a target exercise near Vieques, Puerto Rico on 1 July, 1984. Note concussion effects on the water surface, and 16-inch gun barrels in varying degrees of recoil.
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USS New Jersey (BB-16) in camouflage, circa 1918. Having been in a white coat for the Great White Fleet a decade earlier, she was painted in a camouflage pattern developed by William Mackay for World War I.
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Photochrom of USS Texas in 1898. Having a reputation as being a jinxed or unlucky ship with the nickname "Old Hoodoo", she fought in the Spanish–American War and beyond. On 15 February, 1911, her name was changed to San Marcos to allow the name Texas to be assigned to BB-35, and was sunk as a gunnery target on 10 October of that year.
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A launch rescues a seaman from the burning USS West Virginia (BB-48) after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December, 1941. Smoke rolling out amidships shows where the most extensive damage occurred, the ship having sustained several torpedo and bomb hits, as well as fire damage from nearby USS Arizona. Doris Miller would famously become the first African American Navy Cross recipient for his role in the battle. Though damaged enough to settle on the bottom of the harbor, the West Virginia was repaired, refloated, and sent to fight in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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General Douglas MacArthur signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender as Supreme Allied Commander during aboard USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay with Lieutenant Generals Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV and Arthur Percival on 2 September, 1945. The surrender of Japan effectively ended World War II.
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The only bathtub ever installed on a warship of the United States Navy, this tub aboard the USS Iowa (BB-61) was installed as a convenience for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Due to his paralytic illness, Roosevelt could make little use of a shower while embarked to the Cairo and Tehran Conferences.
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An aerial view of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in 2002. During the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, a bomb from a Japanese Nakajima B5N struck Arizona between the first and second gun turrets, causing a catastrophic explosion that sunk the ship, where she remains today, with 1,102 of her crew still entombed inside.
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USS Colorado (BB-45) steams off lower Manhattan, circa 1932. The battleship had just undergone an overhaul, including the installation of new 5"/25 caliber anti-aircraft guns. She would later provide earthquake relief at Long Beach, California, search for Amelia Earhart, and fight in World War II.
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USS Artisan (AFDB-1) with USS West Virginia (BB-48) held in floating drydock, off Aessi Island, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, on 13 November 1944. The battleship was docked for upkeep and repair to propellers damaged when she touched ground off Leyte on 21 October.
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The Japanese Yamato seen in October 1941 while she is undergoing sea trials prior to commissioning. Yamato and her sister Musashi were the largest and most-heavily armed warships afloat during the Second World War.
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Museum ship USS Texas (BB-35) moored at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site. In the background is the San Jacinto Monument. Commissioned on 12 March 1914, she assisted in the occupation of Veracruz, various battles of World Wars I and II, such as Operations Torch, Overlord, Dragoon, and the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, then turned over to the state of Texas on 21 April, 1948.
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The German battlecruiser Hindenburg, the third ship of the Derfflinger class, was interned at Scapa Flow in November 1918. The defeat of the German Empire in the First World War led to the High Seas Fleet's internment in Scapa Flow while the fate of the ships was decided, but on 21 July 1919 the fleet was scuttled. Hindenburg was raised in 1930 and broken up for scrap.
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The Argentine Rivadavia being constructed by the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation, 2 December 1912. Rivadavia was Argentina's reply to Brazil's Minas Geraes and São Paulo. Argentina's neutrality for the duration of the First and most of the Second World War prevented her from being deployed for combat. Rivadavia was scrapped in the late 1950s after having been used as a source for spare parts since 1951–52.
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Brazil's Minas Geraes fires a full ten-gun broadside to port during her firing trials. A 1910 article in Scientific American commented that it was "the greatest broadside ever fired from a battleship." Minas Geraes participated in many revolts throughout her career, both on the side of rebels and the government. After Brazil's entrance into the Second World War, she was regulated to harbor defense, as the battleship was too old to play an active part in the war. Minas Geraes was towed to Italy for scrapping in 1954 after having been in service for over forty years.
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The Japanese battleship Mikasa as she appeared in early February, 1905. One of the most advanced pre-dreadnoughts of the time, she was adapted from the Royal Navy's Majestic-class battleship, but improved with more displacement, speed, 2 additional guns, and Krupp armour. After fighting in several battles (such as the Yellow Sea and Tsushima), she was sunk after a fire on 11 September, 1905, repaired and recommissioned in 1908 only to run aground during the Siberian Intervention in 1921. Today, she is a museum ship in Yokosuka.
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The Japanese battleship Ise with after her 1935 conversion. Sustaining considerable losses at the Battle of Midway, the Japanese navy converted some of its oldest battleships to aircraft carriers, including the Ise-class battleships. The two aft 356 mm (14 in) gun turrets were replaced by a small flight deck and hangar to launch a squadron of aircraft. Note the distinctive pagoda mast.
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The dilapidated Japanese battleship Nagato anchored at Yokosuka in 1946. Nagato, commissioned in 1920 as the lead of her class, served as the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the attack on Pearl Harbor, but would only see combat again at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Unrepaired and stripped for supplies, she was the only remaining battleship at the time of the Japanese surrender in 1945, and was sunk at the Bikini Atoll as a target for atomic bomb testing the next year.
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HMS Tiger in her post-1918 configuration, with mainmast ahead of her third funnel. The most heavily armoured battlecruiser of the Royal Navy at the start of World War I (through which she was distinguished in the battles of Dogger Bank, Jutland, and Second Heligoland Bight), she was described by Sir John Keegan as "certainly the most beautiful warship in the world then, and perhaps ever".
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HMS Royal Oak (08) flies the Norwegian flag and the White Ensign at half-mast as she carries the body of Queen Maud back to Norway in November 1938. The ship had previously gained notoriety as the subject of the "Royal Oak Mutiny" in 1928. Royal Oak would be decommissioned the following month until the summer of 1939, only to be sunk by German submarine U-47 at Scapa Flow on 14 October 1939, the first British battleship loss of World War II.
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Russian Battleship Novorossiysk at Sevastopol in early 1950. Formerly the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare, she was ceded to the Soviet Navy at the end of World War II and named after the Hero City Novorossiysk in February 1949. The explosion that sunk her in at home port on 29 October, 1955 remains unknown.
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Imperial Russian battleship Gangut in Helsinki on 27 June 1915. The lead ship of her class and last to be completed, she was named for the Battle of Gangut in 1714. After seeing no notable combat in World War I, she was renamed to Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya in 1925. After being refitted in 1931 to 1934, she fought in the Winter War and several battles of World War II.
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Various views of the German battleship Bismarck as she appeared when she left Norway on 21 May, 1941. The lead ship of her class, one of the most famous battleships of World War II was named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Commissioned only a year earlier, she embarked on Operation Rheinübung and was quickly intercepted by HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales at the Battle of the Denmark Strait, resulting in the loss of the former. Having lost the flagship of the Home Fleet, Winston Churchill ordered "Sink the Bismarck," a task accomplished on 27 May.
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HMS Prince of Wales (53) manueuvers to avoid the sinking HMS Hood (51) on 24 May, 1941 in the painting Sinking of HMS Hood. As the two engaged the German battleship Bismarck and German cruiser Prinz Eugen at the Battle of the Denmark Strait, plunging fire from the Bismarck struck the Hood and detonated her magazines, causing the ship to break in two and sink, while the other British ships retreated. Having lost the flagship of the Home Fleet, Winston Churchill ordered "Sink the Bismarck," a task accomplished on 27 May.
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While visiting HMS Prince of Wales (53), Winston Churchill restrains Blackie, the ship's cat, from crossing the gangway to a nearby American destroyer. The remainder of the ships' crews stand at attention for each nation's national anthem.
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The Japanese battleship Tosa at Nagasaki on 31 July 1922. Designed by Yuzuru Hiraga, Tosa was envisioned as the lead ship of a class of two 39,900-long-ton (40,540 t) ships, but she was canceled the day before Japan signed the Washington Naval Treaty. Tosa was then used for various ordnance tests before being scuttled on 9 February 1925.
