The Ultimate Design #1 2-Hull Battleship - The use of this hull is obvious, if only for the sheer amount of weight that can be loaded regardless of nationality.

The interwar system of naval treaties allowed the United States to restart battleship construction in the late 1930s. The first designs (the North Carolina and South Dakota classes) complied with ...

Battleship Bismarck: An Old Design?. The warship was laid down after the signing of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement in 1935, and she was still nominally within the 35,000-long-ton (36,000 tons ...

Initial design work for the Lions, the first post-Treaty British battleships, began in 1938 and envisioned a ship of 45,000-ton full load, armed with nine 16” guns in three triple turrets.