What You Need to Know: After years of analysis, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's team discovered the wreck of the Japanese ...

Comprising three ships—Yamato, Musashi, and Shinano—they featured unprecedented 18-inch guns capable of firing 3,200-pound shells over 25 miles. -Despite their formidable design, all three ...

Musashi was one of four planned Yamato-class battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s. The Yamato-class ships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed ...

Neither did Japan abandon the battleship. Again, the design concept emphasised range. After the expiry of the naval limitation treaties, the Japanese Navy built the two largest battleships in history, ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Discussions are expected to resume on where the historic Battleship Texas new home will be. This comes after the Galveston Wharves Board of Trustees announced a special ...

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 ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A plan involving a new permanent home for the Battleship Texas appears to be in a battle of its own. The Galveston Wharves Board voted Tuesday to terminate negotiations ...

Effectively, the board's decision leaves the historic dreadnought—one of only a handful to have served in both world wars, and reportedly the world's largest battleship still afloat—stranded ...

Battleship Texas, one of the last remaining vessels to survive both World War I and II, will not be docked at the Port of Galveston's Pier 19, the port's governing body decided Tuesday. The ...