The United States Navy began to think about battlecruiser construction even before HMS Dreadnought and HMS Invincible entered service. Prior to the construction of Dreadnought, the USN had built ...

Instead, the capabilities that a battlecruiser provided would not be available until mid-war. What the US Navy did have were battleships. “The USN prioritized slow, well-armored battleships that ...

The Russian battlecruisers, officially designated “heavy nuclear ... those with nuclear propulsion require special care when breaking them up. That is something the United States Navy also learned the ...

This German battlecruiser played a significant role ... “In 1975, I’d been on the USS Worden for two weeks when we were sent to evacuate Saigon,” he said. He served 25 years, and his ...

The larger part of the crew of the battlecruiser Pyotr Veliky has transferred to the board of the Admiral Nakhimov in the expectation of the warship’s delivery to the Navy. The remaining crew ...