Across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, the city whose navy yard built her, the battleship
Few diplomats have ever offered to sink their own navy. Yet on November 12, 1921,
Walk the deck of USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor and the scale hits you first.
Ten 14-inch guns, 573 feet of hull and a commissioning date of March 12, 1914
Hampton Roads, Virginia, was both the starting line and the finish. Sixteen steel-hulled battleships, painted
Modern navies talk endlessly about “next-generation” ships, but an equally important story is how often
Warships are designed to be tracked, logged, and accounted for—especially in wartime. Yet naval history
For much of World War II, the German battleship Tirpitz was less a ship that