Montana-class super battleships would have been nice-to-have assets for the U.S. Navy fleet during World War II and beyond.

the US Navy developed a class of monitors called, funnily enough, the USS Monitor-class (M55). These ships, designed for shore bombardment, featured a single large gun turret with two 12-inch (304 ...

The U.S. Navy might have begun World War II with faster battlecruisers had it prioritized building them after World War I, instead of slow, heavily armored battleships.

In the development of the all-big-gun battleship, the designers of the United States naval vessels at once adopted an arrangement of all turrets on the center-line of the vessel whereby at the ...

The U.S. Navy built the crane in 1947 for $2.5 million. At this point, it looked like a giant table from afar. On two sides, the crane loaded massive gun turrets onto warships. Altogether, it could ...

while the Dictator has but one turret and two guns. A meeting of the personal friends and acquaintances of the lamented Com. GEO. W. ROGERS, U.S.N., was held at the Brooklyn Navy-yard, on Monday ...

which will carry twelve 12-inch in four 3-gun center line turrets. Of pre-dreadnoughts the Italian navy possesses four of the “Vittorio E'ma' 'ele” class (1904-7), viz., the “Emanuele ...

The Royal Navy's next-generation warship, HMS Glasgow, is one step closer to being fully operational, as sailors have ...

The Colorados featured an upgraded armament of eight 16-inch guns in four twin turrets. The developments proved that the US had caught up and was now a major naval power. But worries of another ...

with a revolving turret housing two very heavy guns, which touched off debate over the superiority of the turreted or the broadside design. Fuller takes us through the complexities of the British ...

The first training sessions for operating a new Royal Navy warship’s main gun have been completed. Two sailors took a trip to ...