Sentence examples for battleship type from inspiring English sources

The battleship type had its genesis in the Gloire, a French oceangoing ironclad displacing 5,600 tons that was launched in 1859.

The class was the second standard type battleship class to join the United States Navy, along with the preceding and the succeeding, and classes.

Despite these qualities, the Erzherzog Karl-class battleships were inferior to the more modern Dreadnought type battleships – with their "all big gun" armament and turbine propulsion.

However, like all battleships of her type, she was completed after the Royal Navy battleship, and as such she was outclassed before she was even commissioned.

As a result of all of these design modifications from previous battleships, Nevada was the first of the US Navy's "Standard" type battleships.

They were also the smallest battleships of the type constructed, owing to the weak Spanish economy.

"Nevada" was followed by 11 other battleships of this type, although significant improvements were made in subsequent designs as naval technology rapidly progressed.

An additional seven standard type battleships, the USS Washington (BB-47) and the South Dakota class were never completed due to the Washington Naval Treaty.

They were armed with four 30.5 centimeter (12 inch) guns in two twin turrets and eight 24 cm (9.4 in) guns in four twin turrets; the heavy secondary guns set the Radetzky-class ships apart from other pre-dreadnought type battleships.

The Kaiser Friedrich III class saw the introduction of the traditional armament layout for German battleships four large-caliber guns, but of comparatively smaller caliber compared to contemporary battleships, in two gun turrets prior to the advent of the dreadnought type of battleship in the early 1900s.

And for 300 million ISK you can buy a type 2 battleship and lose that to piracy or ganking".