USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

Battleships once ruled the seas, but they have since been replaced by aircraft carriers. The idea of returning to this paradigm has military experts concerned.

Key Points and Summary - This piece explores a great naval “what if”: a gun duel between America’s never-built Montana-class battleships and Japan’s Yamato-class behemoths. -Designed as larger, better ...

CAMDEN – The Battleship New Jersey, the country’s most decorated battleship, will take her ride down the Delaware River where she will end up in dry dock at a Philadelphia shipyard. The ship will ...

Key Points and Summary on the Battlecarrier - The U.S. Navy once considered a radical and powerful warship concept: the "battlecarrier," a hybrid of a battleship and an aircraft carrier. -The plan, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling affair that lasted from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, ...

Explore the Battleship North Carolina, the most decorated American battleship of World War II, now a museum in Wilmington.

Summary: The USS New Jersey (BB-62), a former United States Navy Iowa-class battleship from World War II, will return to its home in Camden, New Jersey, after spending the spring in drydock at the ...

Dick Ramsey was on board the USS Nevada off the coast of France during the Allied invasion on D-Day, June 6, 1944 — 2½ years after the battleship nearly sank in shallow water at Pearl Harbor during ...

Overcast skies gripped Tokyo Bay on an early September morning 80 years ago. Naval ships anchored in the harbor rocked ever slightly as officials representing the United States and Japan gathered on ...

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.