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Yamato 's Last Voyage. On her last morning, before the first American planes intercepted her, Yamato would have appeared indestructible. After all, she was the heaviest and most powerful battleship ever built, carrying the most formidable guns ever mounted at sea.
A powerful representation of Germany's rise from the ashes of the First World War, it was a fearsome combination of size, swiftness and firepower. Bismarck was nominally meant to be 35,000 tons to meet the stipulations of the Washington Naval Treaty [which placed limits on the size of battleships].
During the war, Tang was credited with sinking 31 ships in her five patrols, totaling 227,800 tons, and damaging two for 4,100 tons.
The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato, along with her sister ship Musashi, were the largest battleships ever constructed. Her nine 46cm (18.1-inch) Type 94 main guns employed were the largest ever mounted on a battle wagon, and as a result, she was the most powerfully armed battleship ever constructed.
The USS Nevada was the only battleship to get underway the morning of December 7, 1941, making her “the only bright spot in an otherwise dismal and depressing morning".
Why the USS Missouri has been described as the most famous battleship ever built - USS Missouri (en)
The wreck you see was once the most feared warship in the world. Even now — 60 years after it went to the bottom — the Nazi battleship Bismarck is still a fearsome sight.
The Bismarck's standard displacement was 41,700 tons. The Hood, completed in 1920, had a standard displacement of 42,037 tons, making her comparable in size to the Bismarck.
Answer (1 of 2): Yes; but then, Hood could have beaten Bismarck at Denmark Strait as it was, and a refitted Hood might still have had a critical weakness only exposed in combat (just as Bismarck's poorly-designed stern structure collapsed when hit by an 18″ torpedo) The problem is that Ecclesias...
The yamato class battleships were a lot much bigger than the bismarck battleships and i mean A LOT BIGGER.
USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest ship still afloat.
USS Nevada (BB-36)
Yamato settled on the seafloor 1,200 feet down and about 50 miles southwest of Kyushu, Japan. Experts believe that a fire raging in the battleship's aft secondary magazine caused tons of ammunition to ignite almost simultaneously, producing the blasts that tore the ship in half and sank her.
No American battleship has ever been lost at sea, though four were sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Of these, only USS Arizona (BB-39) and USS Oklahoma (BB-37) were permanently destroyed as a result of enemy action.
The "Mighty Mo" was the last American battleship ever built and the last to be decommissioned. The surrender of the Japanese on the deck of the Missouri brought the Second World War to an end and remains one of the most impressive highlights in her illustrious 50-year career.
Earlier this year, ocean explorer Victor Vescovo went in search of the Roberts' final resting place in the Philippines - 22,621 feet below the surface. He and his team found 306 feet of mangled metal. It was the deepest shipwreck discovery in history.
Nevada was one of several dozen ships sent to Bikini Atoll to test the effects of nuclear weapons on warships. Nevada, painted bright orange for the tests, survived two nuclear detonations but was damaged and heavily irradiated by the second, underwater explosion.
The Russian missile cruiser Moskva, which was over 600 feet long and more than 12,000 tons, was the biggest warship by tonnage to sink during conflict since World War II.
Yamato fought Allied ships only once, in the Battle of Samar Gulf, where she sank one American escort carrier and one destroyer.
The 73,000-ton (66,224 metric tons) Musashi and sister ship Yamato were the largest battleships the world has ever known. Allied forces sunk the Musashi on October 24, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, considered the largest naval battle of World War II and quite possibly the largest naval battle in history.
Jaime I. This is the last of the three España class dreadnought battleships constructed in Spain between 1910 and 1920, to standards predating the First World War. These ships were remarkable in naval history as the smallest dreadnought battleships ever built.
Among them, the Dokos wreck is thought to be the oldest shipwreck found to date. It dates before c. 2200 BCE, judging by the pottery cargo it carried.