My grandfather served as a gunnery officer aboard the battleship USS New Mexico from 1942 to 1946. To me, the battleship is almost a departed loved one. First, in 1905, the Japanese fleet destroyed the Russian navy at the Battle of Tsushima then, during World War I, the British and German navies fought to a draw at the 1916 Battle of Jutland, but the engagement proved to be a strategic victory for the British because the German fleet never sortied again for battle. While the term “battleship” may remain synonymous with all naval vessels, Van Tol noted that there have only been two major sea battles dominated by battleships. The ideal was for one line of battleships to ‘cross the T’ of the opposing line, such that the line crossing the T could bring all its main guns to bear while the other line was constrained to firing only its forward guns.”
“’Battleship’ really replaced ‘ship of the line’ once ironclad ships with rotating guns or multi-gun turrets were the main fighting ships. “Battleships derive from the era (starting in the 1600s) when the opposing main ‘ships of the line’ would fight each other in lines of battle,” Van Tol told Task & Purpose.
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