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The history of the development of the naval uniform traces the uniforms through significant changes from 1776-1981. These changes are related to naval history in order that the reader can...
The National Battleship Registry provides a comprehensive history of US Navy battleships.
A complete list of all US Navy Battleships, by type and class, in commission during WWII. Links to individual pages giving description, history, and photo.
The US Navy began introducing fast battleships into service following the Second London Naval Treaty of 1936, with a total of ten across three classes entering service. North Carolina class [ edit ]
3 lip 2019 · A complete guide to the US Navy's battleships, with ship histories, from the earliest battleships in 1895 through the retirement of the last in the 1990s.
Battleship Sailors of the Dreadnought Era. For the men who served on board the U.S. Navy's battleships in the 1910s, life at sea often meant backbreaking work shoveling coal or manning the guns, little chance for liberty, and a night's sleep in a hammock instead of a bunk.
Commissioned in the winter of 1910, the USS South Carolina (above) and Michigan (below) were the Navy's first all-big-gun battleships. Each mounted a uniform heavy armament of eight 12-inch guns. Superfiring, or extra-high, turrets allowed all the guns to be carried on the ships' centerlines.
