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Dreadnought (British battleship)

12. This was the first of the 'all big guns' concept, and it made all battleship designs prior to this one obsolete. It was built during the Anglo-German naval arms race of 1897-1914 and was intended to outclass all previous battleships.

Maya (Japanese Cruiser)

8. One of the many Atago class cruisers, it was designed to offically respect the 'Washington Treaty' limit of 10,000 tons standard displacement, but in fact went over that figure by up to 30 percent.

Lion (British first world war battlecruiser)

13.5. The soundness of the 'battlecruiser' concept was to be sorely tested in combat experience during the First World War, as they often had to fight in battle line, outside the role they were designed for. Their lack of protection became quite evident then, and British battlecruisers had the highest unit loss to unit built ratio of any class of ship that fought in First World War.

Mutsu (Japanese Battleship)

16. The Nagato, the Mutsu's sister ship, was the sole Japanese battleship to survive the Second World War, only to be expended as target test ship in the Bikini atomic bomb tests.

Alaska (American battle cruiser of end of Second World War)

12. In concept and size, it could be argued that these ships were quite close to the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst German battlecruiser class, as they were comparable in speed, size and armament.

Seydlitz

12. A veteran of almost all major naval engagements of the First World War, it was almost lost at Jutland. The German battlecruisers proved capable of absorbing tremendous punishment by comparison with their British couterparts.

Repulse (British battlecruiser)

15. Lost with HMS Prince of Wales to Japanese torpedo-bombers, they were the first battleships to be lost solely to air attacks while being able to manoeuvre in open waters.

Roma (Italian battleship)

15. After the Italian surrender to the allies, Roma was sunk by a new concept of German Glider bomb, thus becoming one of the first warships ever to be sunk by a remotely guided weapon.

Saratoga (American aircraft carrier)

8. Biggest guns mounted on a aircraft carrier, I believe, as some great naval thinkers believed these might have to defend themselves in surface action.

Baden

15. This was one of the most modern battleships built by Germany during the First World War.