noun

• A heavy warship of a type built chiefly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with extensive armor and large-caliber guns.

  ‘Wind has disrupted the advance of great warships like battleships and aircraft carriers.’

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  • ‘The Navy had arrived with impressive looking warships and battleships, armed to the teeth with many a cannon and gun.’
  • ‘This is a legacy of the Second World War, in which the aircraft carrier replaced the battleship as the capital ship of fleets.’
  • ‘If the Americans lost a capital ship (a battleship or aircraft carrier) it was simply a loss.’
  • ‘Admiral Kondo's main force of two battleships and six heavy cruisers followed soon after.’
  • ‘Admiral Yoshikawa pointed out that the first Kashima in the Japanese navy was a battleship built by Armstrong on the Tyne in 1906.’
  • ‘The irony is that British submarines did not really have the potential to sink battleships as their armour was simply too great.’
  • ‘The grim battle in the twilight of the Arctic Circle was the last time men of the Royal Navy faced the enemy in a battleship.’
  • ‘These include the battlecruisers HMS Hood, HMS Repulse and the battleship HMS Prince of Wales.’
  • ‘He saw future naval confrontations whereby the battleships and cruisers of a fleet would protect the carriers.’
  • ‘A few minutes earlier, USS battleship Nevada and other ships opened fire on Utah.’
  • ‘The battleships and destroyers following HMS Fearless arrived on the scene at a speed of 21 knots.’
  • ‘Unlike aboard a frigate, the men aboard the Navy's battleships and cruisers felt nothing during transit.’
  • ‘The limits were not on ‘naval forces’, as Chomsky states, but on battleships and aircraft carriers.’
  • ‘Only current Italian battleships, also designed for near seas, had such limited autonomy.’
  • ‘Both vessels were built in England, albeit 136 years apart, and both were designated first class battleships.’
  • ‘Thus, the U.S. Navy had carried battleships on its rosters for little more than a century.’
  • ‘Divers are expected to return to the wreck site later this year to check on the oil which still leaks from the battleship.’
  • ‘Each battle group was protected by battleships and cruisers.’
  • ‘Two battleships packed with Marines lurk offshore.’