Battleships were the most heavily protected ships afloat, nonetheless sixteen were sunk or crippled by bombs or torpedoes delivered by aircraft, while three more were sunk by submarine-launched torpedoes.
There were two engagements between battleships in the Pacific theatre and three in the Atlantic theatre. At the outbreak of war, large fleets of battleships-many inherited from the dreadnought era decades before-were considered one of the decisive forces in naval warfare. The battleship was a capital ship built in the first half of the 20th century. Ideally displacements will be as they were at either the end of the war, or when the ship was sunk. All displacements are at standard load, in metric tonnes, so as to avoid confusion over their relative displacements. This is a list of battleships of the Second World War.
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