Turret base of USS Washington being lowered into barbet

The German Bismarck, Japanese Yamato, British Vanguard and American Iowa Classes will be covered in a subsequent series. I have already published the final part which covers the German Scharnhorst Class entitled Power and Beauty the Battle Cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Part three covered the British Royal Navy King George V Class battleships entitled British Bulwarks: The King George V Class BattleshipsPart Five which was to be a subsection of this article will be on the South Dakota Class. Part two French Firepower Forward: The unrealized potential of the Dunkerque and Richelieu Class Battleshipscovered the French Dunkerque class and Richelieu class Battleships. Part one covered the Italian Vittorio Veneto class entitled The Pride of the Regina Marina: The Vittorio Veneto Class Battleships. This series looks at the modern battleships that the World War II combatants would produce in the 1930s which saw service in the war.

I am not including the ships which were completed in the immediate aftermath of the Washington Treaty limitations. This is the fourth in a series of six articles on the battleships built under the provision of the Washington and London Naval Treaty limitations in the 1930s.

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