Top 10 Biggest Battleships ever built in history

Video Description: A large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns. Yes, we’re talking about Battleships. They were a symbol of naval dominance and for decades they were a major factor in both diplomacy and military strategy. This video presents the top 10 biggest battleships ever built in history based on displacement.
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[williamhaynes]

My Grandfather a Navy master welder during WWII, told me he was assigned to work on the USS Montana class battleships. A larger but slower vessel than the Iowas. They were to do battle with the Yamato and Musashi. After they went down he and his crew were assigned to work on the new Essex class aircraft carriers; one of which was the USS Antietam where Dad served as a Signalman.

[lethalweapontom]

Yamato is sleeping in the sea now, but he will be revived as Space Battleship Yamato to save the earth.

[mitchi]

Foreigners may be mistaken, but the Yamato type was not "made big", but "made it as small as possible".The larger the ship's shadow, the higher the chance of being hit. I downsized it to avoid that. The fact that she was still the largest battleship meant that the triple 46cm guns were out of standard.

[silvershelbygt]

My older brother was a member of the USS Iowa's last crew. He was on it when the gun turret exploded, leading to her decommission.

[sixtealbisetti]

People don't seem to realize how big the Yamato was
It was so big you could actually fit an entire space ship inside it, along with a wave motion gun

[franzhairilvonhipper]

Italian Battleships were design with the Mediterranean Sea in mind. They have a short endurance (compare to other battleship of the same size) because the Italian navy generally operates not far from its base.

[cesaravegah]

Even when there is sound arguments against it I kind of love battleships, just beautiful machines

[glamdring]

For me the IOWA class battleships are by far the best looking of the group...sleek and fast with a very nasty punch. The fact that they were modernized at one point with Phalanx defense systems and Tomahawk cruise missiles just adds icing to the cake.

[donhosmer]

My understanding is that the beam of US warships was limited by what could pass through the Panama Canal

[MrEjidorie]

Though Japanese "Yamato" class battleships were the most formidable battleships ever built in the human history, their commission was too late. Aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft have already played the major role in the battle when two "Yamato" class battleships were introduced. In spite of their huge size and firepower, "Yamato" class battleships did not contribute so much.

[craigsinger]

Actually the Nagato Class was not Built to those specs originally, so if you include the rebuilt version of the Nagato than you must do the same with the Richelieu Class as well. JEAN BART: Displacement
Normal: 43, 052 t (42, 372 long tons)
Full load: 49, 196 t (48, 419 long tons)
Draft 10.9 m (36 ft)
Complement 2, 220
Length 247.85 m (813 ft 2 in)
Beam 33.08 m (108 ft 6 in)
Draft Full load: 9.9 m (32 ft 6 in) Which puts her in 5th place.

[Zehbron]

The first bomb to hit the Yamato was dropped by Navy pilot Francis Ferry, flying a Helldiver. After the war he became a schoolteacher, and was Dean of Boys at Carlmont High in Belmont, on the San Francisco peninsula.

[metaknight]

In case you’re wondering, while the Yamato was slightly shorter than the Iowa, Yamato was also much wider, making Yamato the bigger ship in terms of size
Edit: Why are all of these Freeaboos talking about how Iowa was oh so much better than Yamato? I was simply clarifying a misconception about how big they were. Do you guys feel the need to start an internet debate everywhere you go?

[rartu]

Can't believe in 1921 the Nagato was that big. Ridiculous!

[therealbarnekkid]

Excellent. She got right to it and no empty talk along the way.

[mtlbstrd]

With all due respect to the producers of this video, I have one correction: the Iowa class was originally planned with 6 ships, but only 4 were built, those being the class namesake Iowa, the New Jersey, the Wisconsin, and the Mighty Mo…Missouri.

[seanandre]

Fun fact : the reason the King George V class only had ten guns was for stability reasons. Originally, they were supposed to carry twelve of them, but the stuff was so heavy that the ships became unstable, and the UK was forced to change the highest turret to a double one, in order to rebalance the whole thing.

[gmeister]

I was always under the impression that the Yamato class was massive compared to other battleships.
It’s very surprising to see just how they compared.
I thought that while the Iowa class were capable enough to possibly go toe to toe with them and likely even beat them for being faster but I never imagined them being nearly as big

[jnsc]

Not sure if anyone caught it but I believe she said Yamato class had 16 in guns which actually it had 18 in guns and they were the largest guns on a battleship

[johnfranciscastilloatienza]

I like battleships and battlecruisers because are powerful, strong and magnificent!