USN battleship USS New York (BB34), sunk in the Pacific as a target in 1948.

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BB-40. She was decommissioned in 1947.

During the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, the Russian flagship PRINCE SUVOROV, a pre-dreadnaught battleship, went down taking all 782 officers and men with her.

Discounting carriers and patrol boats & subs.

Largest to smallest: Battleship, Cruiser, Destroyer.

But, they did evolve also; a Russian battleship from the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 was 397 feet long and a WWII US destroyer of the Fletcher class was 376 feet long. Another words, a US WWII Fletcher class destroyer was nearly as big as a battleship in 1904.