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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 Russian 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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