There were two , the Japanese battleships Yamato and Musashi which were the largest and most powerful of any battleships ever constructed .
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The worlds most powerful navy was the British Royal Navy. The Kaiser built a huge modern fleet to rival the RN. This was an arms race. Dreadnought was a class of battleship.
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A destroyer is a small fast warship armed with 5 inch guns. A battleship is any class of warship but equipped with the most powerful armament. In former times or days of sail, a battleship was known as a 'line of battle ship', large enough to take part in the main attack, carrying 74 guns or more
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There were two , the Yamato and the Musashi , from the Yamato class battleship built by the Japanese : they were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed , displacing 72,800 tonnes at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 inch) main guns . ~ see related link below .
The worlds most powerful navy was the British Royal Navy. The Kaiser built a huge modern fleet to rival the RN. This was an arms race. Dreadnought was a class of battleship.
No, just one of the famous battleships as it contained the most US sailors killed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The largest US battlewagons are the Iowa class battleships. The largest and most powerful battleship ever built was the Yamato (and her only sister the Musashi).
The Iowa Class battleship USS New Jersey (16" guns). New Jersey has the distinction of being history's last all gunned battleship to see combat (Vietnam). The most powerful in history was the IJN Yamato (18" guns) & her sister the IJN Musashi (WWII): both rest on the bottom of the sea.
The Yamato class, built by the Japanese in world war two. Yamato and her sister had 18 inch guns which no other ship has ever used before or since. They would have laid waste to any battleships sent against them however they were both defeated by aircraft.
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Gun wise, was an Iowa class battleship. Most powerful (regardless of guns) was an aircraft carrier, most likely an Essex or Midway class during the war. The USS Enterprise was the most decorated USN warship of WWII, but was a Yorktown class carrier. *It was the "Constitution"*
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Many battleships that were built were never in combat, and so were not damaged. The most recent was probably HMS Vanguard, which was completed after the end of World War II and never fired a shot in anger.
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Yorktown was a class of US aircraft carriers. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the commander in chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet during World War II. Yamato was the name of Japan's largest and most powerful battleship.
Historically, the only battleship owned by the New Zealand government was HMS New Zealand, an Indefatigable class battlecruiser. She was paid for by the government of New Zealand but was operated by the RN for her entire career. She was scrapped in the 1920s.