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A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. As they were the largest, best-armed and most heavily armored ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a nation's naval power from the late nineteenth century until World War II. With the rise of air power, notably aircraft carriers, battleships were no longer able to establish naval superiority, and so all have been withdrawn from active service. The related battlecruiser, a successor to the armored cruiser, shared the very large main armament, general size, and cost of a battleship of the same generation, but they traded armor or firepower for higher speed.
Battleship design evolved to incorporate and adapt technological advances to maintain an edge. The word battleship was coined around 1794 as a contraction of the phrase line-of-battle ship, the dominant wooden warship during the Age of Sail. It came into formal use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ironclad warship, but these are now referred to as "pre-dreadnoughts". In 1906, the launch of HMS Dreadnought heralded a revolution in battleship design. Later designs that were influenced by this ship were referred to as "dreadnoughts". Battlecruisers were developed around this time by the British First Sea Lord Jackie Fisher. They were envisioned as being more effective armored cruisers, able to destroy any normal cruiser while being able to outrun any ships capable of sinking them.
By 1910, so-called "super-dreadnoughts" were entering service. In the four years between Dreadnought and the first super-dreadnoughts, the Orion class, displacement had increased by 25% and weight of broadside had doubled. Many battlecruisers and battleships of all varieties served in the First World War, most notably in the Battle of Jutland. None were built between the Nelsons of the early 1920s and the Dunkerques of the early 1930s due to various treaties, but quite a few battleships were constructed shortly before or during World War II. The last, HMS Vanguard, was commissioned just after the war, in 1946.
From this time on, most battleships and all battlecruisers were decommissioned and broken up. France's Jean Bart and Turkey's Yavuz were the last to be scrapped. However, members of the American Iowa class lasted until 1992 to aid troops with fire support; four were deployed in Korea, one in Vietnam, and two to Iraq. Nine battleships exist today as museum ships; eight from the United States, and Japan's Mikasa. (more...)Template:/box-footer
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HMAS Australia was a Indefatigable-class battlecruiser, and the only capital ship of the Royal Australian Navy. Commissioned on 21 June 1913 as her namesake's flagship, she was tasked at the outbreak of World War I to destroy the German East Asia Squadron, and once withdrawn, supported the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force fighting in German New Guinea. After the threat in the Pacific ended, she transferred to the Atlantic, briefly serving as the flagship of the West Indies Squadron, participating in North Sea operations, the flagship of the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron. After colliding twice with HMS New Zealand near Horns Rev in mid-1916, she missed the Battle of Jutland while in repair, and spent the remainder of the war on patrols, though personnel were lent for the Zeebrugge Raid, a 12 December collision with HMS Repulse and pioneered RAN aviation when she launched a Sopwith Pup while undergoing repairs. Post-armistice, she guarded Scapa Flow, leaving just before the German fleet interned there was scuttled, and a brief but non-violent mutiny on 1 June resulted in scandal that cost a sailor his nomination for the Victoria Cross. Though she made further advancements in creating the Fleet Air Arm, Australia's role was unclear, and relegated as a training ship in 1920. Due to her expense, obsolescence, and the fact that Australian ships counted against the Royal Navy in the Washington Naval Treaty's arms limitations, she was scuttled on 12 April 1921.
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Doris "Dorie" Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24, 1943) was the first African American awarded the Navy Cross. Born in Waco, Texas, he was a noted football player in high school and farmer until he enlisted in the United States Navy in September 1939. After training at Naval Station Norfolk, he was assigned to USS Pyro as a mess attendant until he transferred to on USS West Virginia January 2, 1940. Becoming the ship's heavyweight boxing champion, he also was temporarily assigned to USS Nevada in early 1941.
On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Miller was performing laundry when general quarters was sounded, and his was destroyed by the time he arrived. Ordered to help move the wounded, he attempted to evacuate Captain Mervyn S. Bennion, though the latter refused and died at his post on the bridge. After being ordered to carry ammunition for anti-aircraft guns, he found an unmanned Browning .50-caliber. Having no training in operating any of the ship's weaponry, he took control and began firing on the attacking Japanese aircraft until his ammunition was depleted. Though West Virginia eventually susutained enough damage to bottom in the harbor, Miller was awarded the Navy Cross by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz on May 27, 1942 aboard USS Enterprise. Promoted Mess Attendant First Class, he began a war bond tour while attached to USS Indianapolis, transferred to Puget Sound Navy Yard on May 15, 1943, then promoted again to Petty Officer, Officer’s Cook Third Class on June 1 and transferred to USS Liscome Bay. After the Battle of Tarawa, the Liscome Bay was sunk on November 24, and Miller was listed as missing in action until declared dead on November 25, 1944.
Miller has numerous things named in his honor, including USS Miller, a Knox-class frigate, and numerous buildings in Texas.
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