Naval strength has long been a vital factor in global politics. Here are 10 ships that were involved in key moments in major ...

Yamato could be considered hands down the absolute worst battleship ever built. That is because warships need to be ... by ...

Imperial Japan’s Yamato-class battleships were known as the biggest vessels of their kind to ever sail the seas. Before the Second World War, these massive dreadnoughts were introduced as the ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in extremely rare color footage taken from U.S. military aircraft in World War II, a war-history group said.

ANNALS OF THE SEA about the biggest battleship ... biggest warship in the world after lengthy negotiations conducted by Armstrong's supervisor of design, and sales of warships abroad, Eustace ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture—The Yamato Museum’s first major renovation ... lathe used to construct the main guns of the World War II battleship. The facility opened in 2005 as the Kure Maritime ...

From the Age of Sail through to the Second World ... years warships became larger and heavier, a trend that culminated in the 1940s with the massive Bismarck, Iowa, and Yamato class battleships.

I am often asked whether this "Yamato boom" represents a return to the imperialistic philosophy of pre-World War II Japan ... of not only the end of the battleship but the end of the Japanese ...

American billionaire Paul Allen has announced the discovery of the famous World War Two Japanese battleship ... Yamato, was damaged in the fighting, according to the US Navy, and American warships ...

World War II may have definitively proved that battleship s and other big-gun surface warships were no longer the dominant naval weapons, but the battleship's days were numbered well before the ...

Yamato could be considered hands down the absolute worst battleship ever built. That is because warships need to be ... by enemy surface gunfire during World War II; and reportedly one destroyer.