After the fierce fighting in the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where the Japanese lost their first battleship, Hiei, ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The USS Massachusetts was a fast and impressive battleship. The U.S. Navy began construction of its first fast battleships in 1937, with the two ships of the North ...

With massive guns and stout armor, battleships were the centerpiece of any major navy for decades before World War II. The US Navy sent its battleships into combat from the 1890s until the Gulf War.

Eleven members of the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps raised 125 American Flags aboard the Battleship North Carolina on ...

American battleships were a symbol of naval power for decades but became obsolete with the rise of missiles and other ...

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States Navy this year, historians shared its past with community members.

It's 'Battleship' v. 'American Battleship' -- two films scheduled for U.S. release within days of each other. One is a big-budget studio film. The other allegedly pretends to be one. By Eriq Gardner ...

Could Saddam Hussein’s armed forces have sunk a U.S. Navy battleship? That might seem like a question destined to launch an excursion into alt-history, but it was far from hypothetical to the 3,200 or ...

On May 4, 1898, Congress authorized the construction of three battleships, the plans of which very closely followed those of the “Alabama” class, the idea being to have a homogeneous squadron of six ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Services to share this page. Universal Studios says Global Asylum stole their Battleship, but today the mockbuster producers claimed the studio’s copyright lawsuit over American Battleship is just a ...