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Battleship
1992 Battleship USS Missouri, on which, Japan surrendered, decommissioned

1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea

1948 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50

1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st U.S. ship to bombard Japan

1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier

1945 Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa

1944 Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground

1944 RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway

1942 Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal

1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore

1941 German air raid on Russ naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)

1941 German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on U.S. battleship Texas

1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force

1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck

1941 New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland

1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay

1939 German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard

1939 German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed

1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched

1938 1st U.S. bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase

1926 Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin," debuts

1918 Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians

1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed

1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed

1914 Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die

1914 British battleship Audacious sunk by mine

1911 Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode

1911 French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed

1906 Britain's 1st modern and largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched

1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes

1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin"

1898 Sergei Eisenstein, Russia, director, Battleship Potemkin,

1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die

1878 German battleship Grosser Kurfurst sinks, 284 killed



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