What even is a battleship?

Please stop calling destroyers battleships #battleship #warship #navy #warships #totalwar #worldofwarships #hoi4 #royalnavy #usnavy

[Frizzleman]

Men of culture call them Battle Wagons

[jonidymeti]

Oxford dictionary definition of a ‘Battleship’:
“A line-of-battle warship of the largest and most armoured class”

[atack]

For all of the non-boat guys out there, calling every navy ship a "battleship" is the equivalent of calling every car a "truck"

[akizeta]

I'm sure a lot of rubes use "battleship" as a synonym for "warship", just like every armoured vehicle is a "tank".

[DaveFoster-ci]

7 jet skis and a grenade launcher is just irans navy

[HarrowsThoms]

Battleships are pretty, and sometimes they lose their temper against North Korean artillery

[matteobimbi]

In italy we use "corazzata" armored if translated

[Maximbaumann]

I always assumed it just referred to ships intended to directly fight other battleships. Learned something new.

[pauldelay]

A lot of people who are in the media should watch this, they believe everything warship is a battleship.

[bernardobiritiki]

This seems to be a problem exclusive problem to some languages like English since the term of a "ship that goes to battle" coincides with a specific class of ships that go to battle. I think this is the case for english, german and italian
In portuguese we call them "Couraçados", roughly cuirass ships, wich makes sense since they were the most armored ships around

[bardslee]

As someone who has a degree is navy history for the university of Portsmouth. That would be a in order of appearance, one post dreadnought battleship, One first rate ship of the line, fast cruiser (light) and one guided missile destroyer.

[LOLAifyable]

Ships of the line can explain the point as well.
Ships designed to fight in the battleline and go toe to toe with equal opponents.

[brucermarino]

LINE them up. Thanks and blessings for another great video!

[StraightKnots]

This strikes me as trying to argue for the sake of arguing. No other reason, which annoys me.

[totalNERD-eowx]

Would I be correct in saying that the word "Battleship" originates from the Line of Battle in old naval terminology?

[gregorychase]

For the US Navy, large heavily armored ship with 12+ inch main batteries = battleship.

[JGeMcL]

Wrong, a battle ship is a ship that takes 4 hits to sink, duh. 🙄

[Knightmare]

With that logic a aircraft carrier is a battleship!

[goldengodgoldengod-yjrf]

The best way to call them is capitals. As they are the center of millitary spending.

[WestlandBinAlder]

Battleship: heavily armored armed ships

Cruiser: high speed ship that can cruise in long cruisibg radius

Destroyer: high speed and maneuver ship designed to protect bigger ship