Alexander Wooley, a former British Royal Navy officer, is the author of “Battleship Yamato: The Ship, The Myth, The Legend.” ...

The IJN Yamato held the distinction of being history's biggest and most powerfully armed battleship, stretching 263 metres in length, carrying nine ...

Paul Robbins, a 101-year-old World War II veteran, returned to the Battleship New Jersey, where he once served more than eight decades ago. CAMDEN, N.J. (WPVI) -- A rare homecoming unfolded aboard the ...

Just before the outbreak of the First World War, one visionary Japanese naval officer proposed plans for what could have been the largest warship ever built. Called the Zipang, this mega ship would ...

Between the 1880s and the end of World War II, the navies of the world built hundreds of “all-big-gun” battleships, including dreadnoughts and fast battleships. The massive seagoing behemoths evolved ...

If you’ve ever been to Wilmington, you’ve likely seen her. She looms over the city’s downtown -- a symbol of state pride and national history. The Battleship North Carolina sits moored at the mouth of ...

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President Donald Trump went on a bonkers riff about battleships in which he waxed poetic about their butter-knife-like qualities and longed to recreate a key plot point of the Hasbro movie Battleship.

Aboard the Battleship New Jersey, surrounded by friends, family and the ship’s important legacy, John “Johnny Q” Quinesso Sr. marked a milestone: his 100th birthday. The World War II Navy veteran and ...

The USS Massachusetts fired America's first 16-inch shell of World War II. It also fired the last. In 1942, the 680-foot battleship fired the first US 16-inch projectile of the war in combat with ...

President Trump says modern U.S. ships are “ugly” — not ugly in the damage they can do to the enemy, but aesthetically ugly to what he believes is an expert eye. Hence, the commander-in-chief has ...