Battleship Timeline of Events

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A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a nation's naval power from about 1875 up until World War II...

Timeline of Events

1893

2.28.1893

The USS ''Indiana'', the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.

6.22.1893

The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

1909

2.22.1909

The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, returns to the United States after a voyage around the world.

1915

3.18.1915

World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.

1943

9.29.1943

World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.

1944

11.12.1944

World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship ''Tirpitz'', with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.

1992

3.31.1992

The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.