North Carolina II (Armored Cruiser No. 12)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. 18 February 2016 . Retrieved 10 March 2019. Sondhaus, Lawrence (2001). Naval Warfare 1815–1914. London. ISBN 978-0-415-21478-0. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Fuller, John (1945). Armament and history; a study of the influence of armament on history from the dawn of classical warfare to the second World War [by] Major General J.F.C. Fuller. New York: Scribner's Sons . Retrieved October 23, 2015. Gray, Randal (1985). Gardiner, Robert (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Naval Institute Press. p. 439. ISBN 978-0-87021-907-8.

The Naval Treaties of the 1920s and 1930s limited the number of battleships, though technical innovation in battleship design continued. Both the Allied and Axis powers built battleships during World War II, though the increasing importance of the aircraft carrier meant that the battleship played a less important role than had been expected in that conflict. Friedman, Norman (1984). U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated History. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-715-9. As parents, we all know how dangerous and distracting that can be when your are driving. Having this battleship game on paper printable ready to go in these very situations will help keep the peace and avoid many stressful situations. Napoleon (90 guns), the first purpose-designed screw line of battleships", Steam, Steel and Shellfire, Conway's History of the Ship, p. 39. HMS Orion, super dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. Heavier than the HMS Dreadnought but just as fast, this ship mounted 10 13.5-inch guns of greater armour-piercing power in five turrets along the centreline of the vessel. The Orion was present at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and was scrapped under the Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty of 1922. (more)Mahan, Alred Thayer. Reflections, Historic and Other, Suggested by the Battle of the Japan Sea. By Captain A. T. Mahan, US Navy. US Naval Proceedings magazine; June 1906, volume XXXIV, number 2. United States Naval Institute Press. Wilson, H. W. (1898). Ironclads in Action– Vol 1. London. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) United States Navy: decommissioned its last battleship USS Missouri in 1992. She was the last active battleship of any navy. Battle cruisers gained their superior speed by sacrificing heavy armour; as a consequence, they could not stand up to battleships. This was proved at the Battle of Jutland, where the Invincible was blown in two by a single salvo and sunk along with two other battle cruisers. These losses led many to argue that the battle cruiser was a mistake, but during the war Britain laid down six more, three of which were eventually completed. The last of them, HMS Hood, launched in 1918, could be described as a new stage in warship development. It was so large, at 41,200 tons, that it could combine contemporary battleship armour and armament (equivalent to that of HMS Queen Elizabeth) with the very high speed of 31 knots. Although classed as a battle cruiser, it was actually the first of a new generation of very fast battleships.

The only other 20th-century battleship on display is the Japanese pre-dreadnought Mikasa. A replica of the ironclad battleship Dingyuan was built by the Weihai Port Bureau in 2003 and is on display in Weihai, China. [ citation needed] Even as the Navy was in the process of building up its fleet of modern battleships, it began development of the Iowa-class, which improved upon the earlier South Dakota-class, with more powerful engines and longer-caliber guns that offered far greater range. More importantly, the Iowa-class was truly designed as “fast” battleships that mixed speed and firepower and this enabled it to travel with a carrier force. Capable of reaching speeds of up to 33 knots, they were fast moving, while heavily armed with nine 16-inch guns and 10 twin five-inch guns. Like all battleships, the Iowa-class carried heavy armor protection against shellfire and bombs, as well as underwater protection against torpedoes. Taylor, A. J. P. (Red.); etal. (1975). 1900-talet: Vår tids historia i ord och bild; Part 12 (in Swedish). Helsingborg: Bokfrämjandet. p.159.Iowa (BB-4)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command . Retrieved 28 September 2011. Illustration of Japanese ships commencing the bombardment of Port Arthur at the outset of the Russo-Japanese War, February 8–9, 1904. (more) Gardiner, Robert; Lambert, Andrew, eds. (2001). Steam, Steel and Shellfire: The steam warship 1815–1905– Conway's History of the Ship . Book Sales. p.192. ISBN 978-0-7858-1413-9. Friedman (2013) p. 68, Captain Pakenham, British observer at Tsushima; "...When 12 inch guns are firing, 10 inch guns go unnoticed...Everything in this war has tended to emphasise the vast importance to a ship...of carrying some of the heaviest and furthest-shooting guns that can be got into her."