The USS Iowa, e.g

Usage examples of battleship.

As the long waves of amphtracs, each trailing a plume of white spray, raced with their supporters toward the beaches, the fire support battleships, cruisers and destroyers, anchored only 1250 yards off shore, delivered frontal and enfilading fire on beach defenses.

Four hundred ballista battleships and over a thousand javelin destroyers converged to form a deadly noose around the planet that had once been inhabited by free humans, before the Honru Massacre.

She knew that the large rammer fleet would soon be completed: extraordinarily armored kamikaze battleships to be crewed by Soldier compies.

In the eighties, we recommissioned all four of our Iowa class battleships and deployed them around the world.

Slowly and with majestic grace the battleship dropped until she rested on the water.

To the west, downstream, the sink curved out of sight around the base of a series of buttes like ancient battleships sailing in line ahead.

Nothing smaller than a battleship could fight it, nothing but another alpha synth could catch it, and she hated to even think how Fleet would react if she and Tisiphone actually succeeded in stealing it.

She looked up as the battleship streaked toward the thermosphere at full speed.

Lower and lower she sank until as darkness enveloped us her lights were thrown on and in the dim halo of her own radiance the monster battleship dropped on and on down into what seemed to me must be the very bowels of Barsoom.

We turned to look in the direction from whence the first report had come, and there we saw, just clearing the tops of the nearer hills, a great battleship swinging majestically through the air.

Acting upon the hint which had been conveyed from various investigations in the domain of physics, and concentrating upon the problem all those unmatched powers of intellect which distinguished him, the great inventor had succeeded in producing a little implement which one could carry in his hand, but which was more powerful than any battleship that ever floated.

Even the battleship Wellesley and the brig Algerine sent from India had not engaged in warfare.

Their Qin battleships were coiling around the asteroid belt on thrusters, a long two-day journey, in order to avoid the scanners on the mining station until the last possible moment.

They had been instructed to wait with five other transports outside the solar system while the Qin battleships attacked the Domain mining station and eliminated the patrolships.

How could they miss the fact that battleships were being built in Qin?