Alexandria’s historic waterfront has given up the remains of two more ships, probably from the late 1700s or early 1800s, at the site of a former warehouse that is being redeveloped into ...

They have a bunker capacity of 1,700 tons of coal, and, compared with other ships of their displacement and date, they carry an exceptionally heavy battery. When in the end-on position they can ...

With massive guns and stout armor, battleships were the centerpiece of any major navy for decades before World War II. The US Navy sent its battleships into combat from the 1890s until the Gulf War.