2014 Event India has put the INS Kolkata into service; the battleship, built locally, is the second to be commissioned this year and signals the nation's intent to update its military in response to concern regarding China's growth 1992 Event Battleship USS Missouri, on which, Japan surrendered, decommissioned 1955 Event Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea 1948 Death Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50 1945 Event Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st U.S. ship to bombard Japan 1945 Event Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa 1944 Event Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground 1944 Event RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway 1942 Event Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal 1941 Event British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore 1941 Event German air raid on Russian naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks) 1941 Event German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on U.S. battleship Texas 1941 Event German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force 1941 Event Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck 1941 Event New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland 1939 Event German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay 1939 Event German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard 1939 Event German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed 1939 Event German battleship Bismarck was launched 1938 Event 1st U.S. bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase 1926 Event Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin," debuts 1918 Event Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians 1918 Event Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed 1915 Event French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed 1914 Event Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die 1914 Event British battleship Audacious sunk by mine 1911 Event Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode 1911 Event French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed 1906 Event Britain's 1st modern and largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched 1905 Event Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes 1905 Event Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin" 1898 Birthday Sergei Eisenstein, Russia, director, Battleship Potemkin, 1879 Event British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die 1878 Event German battleship Grosser Kurfurst sinks, 284 killed
