The list of battleships includes all
battleship
A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns. It dominated naval warfare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The term ''battleship'' came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type ...
s built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically.
The boundary between
ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called '
pre-dreadnought battleship
Pre-dreadnought battleships were sea-going battleships built between the mid- to late- 1880s and 1905, before the launch of in 1906. The pre-dreadnought ships replaced the ironclad battleships of the 1870s and 1880s. Built from steel, protec ...
', is not obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895.
As they can be considered as reduced versions of battleships,
coastal defence ship
Coastal defence ships (sometimes called coastal battleships or coast defence ships) were warships built for the purpose of coastal defence, mostly during the period from 1860 to 1920. They were small, often cruiser-sized warships that sacrifi ...
s (sometimes also referred to as coastal defence battleships) are included in the list.
See also
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List of ironclads
The list of ironclads includes all steam-propelled warship (supplemented with sails in various cases) and protected by iron or steel armor plates that were built in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, between 1859 and the e ...
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List of battlecruisers
During the first half of the 20th century, many navies constructed or planned to build battlecruisers: large capital ships with greater speed but less armor than dreadnought battleships. The first battlecruisers, the , were championed by the Brit ...
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List of battleships of the Second World War
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List of battleship classes
Sources
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, last1=Langensiepen
, first1=Bernd
, last2=Güleryüz
, first2=Ahmet
, date=1995
, title=The Ottoman Steam Navy 1828–1923
, url=
, location=London
, publisher=Conway Maritime Press
, page=
, isbn=0-85177-610-8
, author-link=
External links
Maritimequest Battleships & Battlecruisers of the 20th century
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