A marvel of engineering in its day, the USS Washington blended heavy armor with impressive speed. She was truly a “fast battleship” capable of keeping pace with carrier task forces. Her displacement ...

The battlecruisers were designed to project power and deter Western navies, but their obsolescence in the face of carrier-based warfare and the immense cost of construction rendered them utterly ...

The Alaska-class ships were unique American warships from World War II, designed as massive “large cruisers” or battlecruisers. -Their mission was to be “cruiser-killers,” specifically to hunt down ...

In a rare World War II naval upset, two German battleships, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, ambushed and sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in 1940. -The disaster was the result of a series ...