The Royal Navy was also recruited, deploying mini submarines to attach mines to the ship’s hull. While these caused considerable damage, they failed to take her out of commission. Allied attacks ...
Simpsonville’s mayor Paul Shewmaker revealed the piece is part of the battleship’s hull and is on indefinite loan from the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. “We didn’t know we were getting it ...
Back when Battleship North Carolina was commissioned in 1941, the ship was thought of as "the world's greatest sea weapon," and it turned out to be just that by participating in more than a dozen ...
“Three battleship guns in a turret as big as a Greyhound ... They found that the hull plates had ripped outward 20 feet at the point of the explosion like an over-pressurized tin can.