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 ...

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) -- 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What Would a New U.S. Navy Battleship Look Like in 2024? Despite innovations such as missile adaptations on battleships, the era of large gunships is over. by Peter Suciu Follow PeterSuciu on ...

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 ...