Questions Over Battleship Role Resurface; Navy Officials Say Firepower Offsets Age, Operating Expense From: The Washington Post | Date: April 23, 1989| Author: Molly Moore | Copyright 1989 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

They are floating fortresses, the most heavily armored naval vessels steaming the seas and armed with the biggest naval guns in the world.

The blast of a one-ton shell from a U.S. battleship gun leaves a scorched crater in the earth half the size of a football field.

When the rest of the world's navies turned their battleships into scrap metal after World War II, the U.S. Navy coated its behemoth vessels in gray, fish-oil-based paint, stuffed their insides with dehumidifiers a...

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