As early as 1914, the British Admiral Percy Scott predicted that battleships would soon be made irrelevant by aircraft. [60] By the end of World War I, aircraft had successfully adopted the torpedo as a weapon. [61] In 1921 the Italian general and air theorist Giulio Douhet completed a hugely influential treatise on strategic bombing titled The Command of the Air, which foresaw the dominance of air power over naval units. The Military Balance 2014. Routledge for The International The International Institute of Strategic Studies. 2014. ISBN 978-1857437225. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021 . Retrieved July 26, 2021– via Google Books. Battleships were a symbol of naval dominance and national might, and for decades the battleship was a major factor in both diplomacy and military strategy. [2] A global arms race in battleship construction began in Europe in the 1890s and culminated at the decisive Battle of Tsushima in 1905, [3] [4] [5] [6] the outcome of which significantly influenced the design of HMS Dreadnought. [7] [8] [9] The launch of Dreadnought in 1906 commenced a new naval arms race. Three major fleet actions between steel battleships took place: the long-range gunnery duel at the Battle of the Yellow Sea [10] in 1904, the decisive Battle of Tsushima in 1905 (both during the Russo-Japanese War) and the inconclusive Battle of Jutland in 1916, during the First World War. Jutland was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of dreadnoughts of the war, and it was the last major battle in naval history fought primarily by battleships. [11] Evans, Mark L. (14 September 2015). "South Dakota (Battleship No. 49)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command . Retrieved 10 March 2019. Sondhaus, Lawrence (2004). Navies in Modern World History. London. ISBN 978-1-86189-202-7. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)

Tamelander, Michael; etal. (2006). Slagskeppet Tirpitz– kampen om Norra Ishavet (in Swedish). Norstedts Förlag. p.363. ISBN 978-91-1-301554-5. Spanish Navy: lost its two surviving España-class battleships during the Spanish Civil War, both in 1937.The Iowa-class battleships gained a new lease of life in the U.S. Navy as fire support ships. Radar and computer-controlled gunfire could be aimed with pinpoint accuracy to target. The U.S. recommissioned all four Iowa-class battleships for the Korean War and the New Jersey for the Vietnam War. These were primarily used for shore bombardment, New Jersey firing nearly 6,000 rounds of 16inch shells and over 14,000 rounds of 5inch projectiles during her tour on the gunline, [88] seven times more rounds against shore targets in Vietnam than she had fired in the Second World War. [89] The dreadnoughts, BB-26 South Carolina through BB-35 Texas, commissioned between 1910 and 1914, uniformly possessed twin turrets, introduced the superimposed turret arrangement that would later become standard on all battleships, and had relatively heavy armor and moderate speed (19–21 knots, 35–39km/h, 22–24mph). Five of the ten ships used the established vertical triple expansion (VTE) propulsion rather than faster direct-drive turbines, used by the British which had higher fuel consumption. The ships had 8 ( South Carolina class), 10 ( Delaware and Florida) or 12 ( Wyoming class) 12-inch guns, or 10 ( New York class) 14-inch (356mm) guns. The dreadnoughts gave good service, the last two classes surviving through World War II before being scrapped. However, they had some faults that were never worked out, and the midships turrets in the ten and twelve-gun ships were located near boilers and high-pressure steam lines, a factor that made refrigeration very difficult and problematic in hot climates. One of their number, Texas (BB-35), is the last remaining American battleship of the pre–World War II era and the only remaining dreadnought in the world. If you want to save on paper, just print out the number of battleship template worksheets you need, and laminate them so you can use them again and again.

Axell, Albert; etal. (2004). Kamikaze– Japans självmordspiloter (in Swedish). Lund, Sweden: Historiska media. p.316. ISBN 978-91-85057-09-2. That’s why you need this printable battleship game at the ready! Laminate the Battleship Paper Printable to Create a Reusable Game Gibbons, Tony (1983). The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers– A Technical Directory of all the World's Capital Ships from 1860 to the Present Day. London: Salamander Books Ltd. p.272. ISBN 978-0-517-37810-6.Friedman, Norman (1985). U.S. Battleships, An Illustrated Design History. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-715-9. Illustration of Japanese ships commencing the bombardment of Port Arthur at the outset of the Russo-Japanese War, February 8–9, 1904. (more) USS New Jersey". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Archived from the original on February 3, 2007 . Retrieved March 18, 2007. Strategy and doctrine [ edit ] Doctrine [ edit ] USS Iowa fires a full broadside of her nine 16″/50 and six 5″/38 guns during a target exercise. Miller, Nathan (1997). The U.S. Navy: A History (3rded.). Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-595-0. OCLC 37211290.

Gilbert, Adrian (2000). The encyclopedia of warfare: from earliest time to the present day, Part 25. Taylor & Francis. p.224. ISBN 978-1-57958-216-6. Archived from the original on July 26, 2020 . Retrieved April 17, 2012. Kennedy, Paul M. (1983). The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery. London. ISBN 978-0-333-35094-2. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Iowa (BB-4)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command . Retrieved 28 September 2011.Austro-Hungarian Navy: lost its entire navy following the collapse of the Empire at the end of World War I.