What You Need to Know: After years of analysis, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's team discovered the wreck of the Japanese battleship Musashi in 2015, 3,280 feet deep in the Philippine Sibuyan Sea.

You wouldn't know it if you looked at the baby-faced senior gazing off the pages of the 1928 Bismarck High School yearbook.

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 ...

sinking battleship Musashi, putting heavy cruiser Myoko out of action and damaging several others. (Halsey’s carrier Princeton was fatally wounded by a land-based Japanese Judy, the only one of ...

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, ...

The term fast battleship is applied to a class of ships that was fast enough to perform tasks like escorting aircraft ...

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 ...