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battleship history button No battleships serve with the U.S. Navy today, but for an overall, brief history of U.S. Navy battleships, followed by a link to the list of battleships, select this button.
For a complete list of all battleships that served with the Navy, select this button. This list gives the ships' names, their dates of commissioning(s) and decommissioning(s), and the eventual fate each one met. There are also links from the ships' names to an up-to-date, illustrated history of each ship.

Updated: 21 May 2000


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