This massive warship was designed to be able to counter the superior numbers of the US Navy with incredibly dangerous firepower. It was armed with nine 46cm main guns that were the largest to be mounted on a battleship at the time. The battleshipВ Yamato was launched in 1940 and at the time was theВ heaviest and most powerfully armed battleship ever created. The mission was said to be one of the greatest British raids of all time and would see its men and the ship go down in history. This meant thatВ large German warships couldn't be repaired there and were instead forced to return home, through more dangerous waters in order to be fixed. TheВ HMS Campbeltown exploded at noon on 28 March 1942 rendering the dock useless until 1948. OnlyВ 228 of the 611 men who embarked on the mission managed to return Britain but the mission itself was a success. It was rammed into the dock, as the British Commandos stormed the facilities in order to destroy machinery and other structures. In 1942, the Campbeltown was loaded with explosives and embarked on Operation Chariot - the mission to destroy theВ heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire. It wasn't long before the destroyer was essentially obsolete, but it was still useful and put to good use too. This ship was first launched by the US Navy in 1919 as theВ USS Buchanan, but laterВ transferred to the Royal Navy to support the war effort and renamed asВ HMS Campbeltown. TheВ HMS Campbeltown is another warship that's most well-known for its interesting end.

It was decommissioned in 1919 and scrapped two years later. It was theВ first capital ship to be powered by steam turbines which made it the fastest battleship in the world at the time, topping out at 21 knots.Дespite all the advancements, theВ HMS Dreadnought didn't really engage in many significant battles and was best known for theВ ramming and sinking of German submarine SM U-29. It had 10 large 30cm guns, 27 12-pdr (7.6cm) guns and five torpedo tubes too.

TheВ Dreadnought was designed to be faster and capable of firing heavy ordinance at a much longer range. Even the battleships that came before it were then known asВ 'pre-dreadnoughts'. A generation of warships followed with entire classes named after this single vessel. This ship launched in 1906 and hit the waters with such incredible technological advancements that it rendered many other ships obsolete. TheВ HMS Dreadnought graces our list due to being one of the most significant vessels thanks to the revolution it brought to naval power. Despite the order to abandon ship, the attack and scuttling lead to massive loss of life. Thousands of shells were fired at the Bismark to put an end to it and eventually it was so badly damaged that First Officer Hans Oels gave the order to scuttle her. The British then relentlessly pursued the Bismark, attacking it with all manner of vessels including obsolete biplane torpedo bombers. The ship was involved in theВ Battle of the Denmark Strait where the HMS Hood was sunk by fire from this ship and theВ Prinz Eugen. It first launched in 1939 but was seen as such a threat that it didn't last long in service. It was a monster of a ship, armed withВ eight 38 cmВ SK C/34 guns,В twelve 15 cm L/55 guns, sixteen 10.5 cm L/65 guns and sixteen 3.7 cm L/83 guns and twelve 2 cm anti-aircraft cannons. The Bismark, along with the Tirpitz, famously has the title of being the largest battleship ever built by Germany and technically the largest ever built by any European country. Winkelmann/Wikipedia German battleship Bismarck

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