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5 days ago · Launched in January 1944, she was the last battleship to be added to the US fleet during World War II. Despite this, her role in American history is unmatched, most notably as the site of the...
3 days ago · The 20 Best Movies About Battleships, as voted on by fans. Current Top 3: Greyhound, Midway, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
4 days ago · Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who attempted to reach the South Pole. Best known for his 1914–16 expedition, in which his ship, Endurance, was crushed by pack ice, Shackleton and his crew endured months of hardship, including a harrowing voyage to South Georgia Island, before being rescued.
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2 days ago · The four Iowa -class ships were the last battleships commissioned in the U.S. Navy. All older U.S. battleships were decommissioned by 1947 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register (NVR) by 1963. Between the mid-1940s and the early 1990s, the Iowa -class battleships fought in four major U.S. wars.
4 days ago · American battleships West Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland, California and all their pals join in the fight as the Pearl Harbor survivors (minus Mississippi), the heavy and light cruisers absolutely annihilate Nishimura's Southern Force. The battle, more of a nautical execution, was the last battleship versus battleship fight in naval history.
4 days ago · Vasa, 17th-century Swedish vessel, the mightiest warship of its day, that sank on its maiden voyage on August 10, 1628, with about 30 of 150 persons aboard drowning. While the Thirty Years’ War was raging in Europe, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden realized he needed a stronger naval presence if he were to retain his dominance in the Baltic.
4 days ago · On September 15, 1944, a 23 year-old Lancaster bomber pilot named Lawrence Goodman set off with his squadron on an ambitious mission: to drop a 12,000 pound bomb known as the “Tallboy” on German...
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