The 2019 film "The Great War of Archimedes" offers a highly fictionalized telling of the political maneuvers concerned with building the Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamato. The movie helps ...

Launched on 14 February 1939, the German flagship and pride of the Kriegsmarine, Bismarck was launched. In the darkness of ...

At 9:40pm on February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 268 men and shocking the American populace. Of the two-thirds of the crew who perished, only 200 ...

Restricted to a limited size due to the impositions of the Treaty of Versailles, this 'pocket battleship' was still a formidable fighting force. It was faster than a battleship, and had firepower ...

One film shows the battleship under U.S. attack on April 7, 1945, off Kagoshima Prefecture, according to Toyonokuni Usashijuku, a local group that analyzes and identifies U.S. war archival materials.

The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year ...