Battleship

A Battleship is a massive warship built mainly in the early 20th century.

Ship of the Line
During the 17th century, large warships known as Ships of the Line where built.

They had between 2 and 4 decks full of guns and sailed in lines with other Line ships.

Steam Power
By the 1850's, Steam Engines started to get fitted onto Line ships, this was the first major change to the Ship of the line concept.

It allowed for faster ships, however by the 1860's Ships of the Line began to fall out of the spot of strongest warship as Ironclads began being built by major navys.

Ironclads


Early Ironclads did infact retain sails, however it wasnt long before they where removed and the only masts on a ship where for other porposes.

The Ironclad Era was short, as before Pre Dreadnoughts began popping up.

Pre Dreadnought
Around the 1890's ships got bigger and started having more weapons. And calling them ironclads sstarted to stop as they where given more specific names.



Then the Royal Navy built HMS Dreadought.

Dreadnoughts
Dreadnought was the first "All Big Gun " Battleship. It had very large guns, and that was practicly unheard of before hand.

Dreadnougnt began the Battleships Arms Race. Naval technology was developing rapidly.

Dradnoughts where used through WW1 but began being replaced towards the end of it.

Royal Navy

 * HMS Warspite
 * HMS Dreadnought

Impeiral Japanese Navy

 * IJN Yamato
 * IJN Kawachi

United States Navy

 * USS Iowa
 * USS Montana
 * USS North Carolina
 * USS South Carolina
 * USS Texas

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