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battleship: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (7639 words) |
 | The Imperial Japanese Navy's Satsuma was the first battleship in the world to be designed and laid down as an all-big-gun battleship, although gun shortages only allowed her to be equipped with four of the twelve 12-in (300 mm) guns that had been planned. |
| The US Navy's "Standard"-type battleships, beginning with the Nevada class, or "Battleship 1912," were designed with long-range engagements and plunging fire in mind; the first of these ships, USS Nevada, was laid down in 1912, five years before the Battle of Jutland taught the dangers of long-range fire to European navies. |
| The ships, while comparatively big for a cruiser, are not battleships in the traditional sense; they adhere to the design premise of a large missile cruiser and lack traditional battleship traits such as heavy armor and significant shore bombardment capability. |
| Battleship - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (4012 words) |
| These ships were called the "main line of battle ships", or battleships for short, as they were expected to fight there. |
| The line of battle was first used by England and Spain in the early 17th century, although ships of similar type, generally called "great ships" or ships of the line had existed in several European countries since around 1410. |
| The ships, while comparatively big for a cruiser, are not battleships; they adhere to the design premise of a large missile cruiser and lack traditional battleship traits such as heavy armor and signigicant shore bombardment capability. |
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