This is a list of naval battles in history where steel vessels rated as
battleships and/or
battlecruisers engaged each other in combat.
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Naval warfare
Battleships
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 o ...