The design of the Alaska-class cruisers was a blend of cruiser and battleship characteristics ... with nine 12-inch (305 mm)/50 caliber Mark 8 guns, arranged in three triple turrets.

Bismarck had eight fifteen-inch guns in four large turrets ... twenty-to-thirty-year-old battleships, and more than a dozen scrappy cruisers and destroyers were able to ensure that the mighty ...

Besides plans for more submarines, cruisers, destroyers, Moscow announced that two new dreadnaughts would be built, each of 35,000 tons, equipped with 16-inch guns. A battleship is not only bigger ...

According to Gehrett, Edwin, whose nickname was “Manny,” and all of his brothers had “crystal blue” eyes, were tall and had ...

plus three battle cruisers. The last U. S. Navy battleship was the Kentucky (BB-66), which was never finished. Should the nation return to using the massive floating gun platforms — which seems ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.