These 5 Epic Battleship Face-offs Left Their Mark on History
Battleships took pride of place in the navies of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Only eight dreadnoughts remain, all in the United States. Over time, it is almost certain that this number will dwindle; several of the memorialized battleships are in poor condition, and likely will eventually find their way to the scrappers, or to service as an artificial reef. Nevertheless, for more than a generation analysts and the general public perceived these ships to constitute the currency of naval, and to some extent national, power.
This article first appeared in 2015.
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