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Aircraft carriers form the main capital ships of most modern-era blue-water navies.Battleships became the main form of capital ship after sailing vessels fell out of use, and remained so up to World War II. Shown is the German SMS Helgoland.Ships of the line (of battle) were the capital ships of the era of sail. Pictured is the Spanish Santa Ana, a very large example with 112 guns.
The capital ships of a navy are its most important warships; they are generally the larger ships when compared to other warships in their respective fleet. A capital ship is generally a leading or a primary ship in a naval fleet.[1]
^Keegan, John (1989). The Price of Admiralty. New York: Viking. p. 276. ISBN 0-670-81416-4.
The capitalships of a navy are its most important warships; they are generally the larger ships when compared to other warships in their respective fleet...
Ongoing limits of both capitalship tonnage and the tonnage of secondary vessels with the 5:5:3 ratio. The proposals for capitalships were largely accepted...
ice hockey team Capital (sidewheeler), a 19th-century American steamboat Capital Airlines (disambiguation), several uses Capitalship, a classification...
This is a list capitalships of Sweden of the period 1550-1859: Note: Armament could vary over time. Elefant (65), 1558. Wrecked 1564. Finska Svan (82)...
just 90 small ships, over one-third of them wooden and obsolete, the Navy quickly added new steel fighting vessels. The fleet's capitalships were already...
191 Beeler, p. 154, states that HMS Edinburgh was the first British capitalship to be routinely called a battleship. Hill, p. 18 War and the Future by...
main battery consisting of large-caliber guns, designed to serve as capitalships with the most intense firepower. Before the rise of supercarriers, battleships...
A ship is a large vessel that travels the world's oceans and other navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions...
battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capitalship of the first half of the 20th century. These were similar in displacement...
player's fleet. CapitalShip Crews and Supply Points are both required for the construction of powerful capitalships; regular capitalships require one crew...
surface naval ships are commonly divided into the following different classes. The larger ships in the list can also be classed as capitalships. Aircraft...
An amphibious assault ship is a type of amphibious warfare ship employed to land and support ground forces on enemy territory during an amphibious assault...
Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. The Capital Maritime Group which is controlled by the Marinakis family, managed a mixed fleet of more than 70 ships in...
Star Destroyers are capitalships in the fictional Star Wars universe. Star Destroyers were produced by Kuat Drive Yards, later Kuat-Entralla Engineering...
torpedoes called torpedo boats were built and became a threat to large capitalships near enemy coasts. The first seagoing vessel designed to launch the...
using Stargates, capitalships can also utilize jump drives, which require another ship to create a "Cynosural Field" which the capitalship can then jump...
carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capitalship of a fleet, as it allows a naval force to project air power worldwide...
A warship or combatant ship is a ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare. Usually they belong to the armed forces of a nation. As well...
rather than for capitalships—these classes gave Germany a total of ten modern capitalships built or building in 1909. The British ships were faster and...
This is a list of capitalships (battleships, ironclads and coastal defence ships) of minor navies: El Plata class ARA El Plata (1874) ARA Los Andes (1874)...
units of non-capitalships may be called squadrons in some instances, and flotillas in others. Formations including more than one capitalship, e.g. men-of-war...
adequately defended only if the Royal Navy sent the majority of its capitalships there, to achieve parity with an estimated force of nine Japanese battleships...
carrier/destroyer as their frontline capitalship at the Battle of Coruscant. A modified variant, the Invisible Hand, serves as the command ship for Count Dooku and General...
classes of warship operated by the Royal Australian Navy. Included are capitalships, amphibious vessels, cruisers, destroyers and frigates. Following the...
The names of commissioned ships of the United States Navy all start with USS, for United States Ship. Non-commissioned, primarily civilian-crewed vessels...
cruisers were now classified, along with dreadnought battleships, as capitalships. By the early 20th century, after World War I, the direct successors...
were scrapped in the 1970s. Navies with coastal defence ships serving as their main capitalships included those of Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, the Netherlands...
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