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Battleship
built 495 days ago
The Battleship is a large and powerful naval vessel designed to operate independently and lay siege during land assaults. Both sides have employed these ships, direct descendants of the powerful Allied Cruiser.
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Retired to stud at DuPont's Montpelier Stud in Virginia, Battleship sired only 57 registered foals in 15 crops, presumably due to lack of opportunity, being a steeplechase sire. Of these few, 11 won stakes, which is an amazing percentage of class from so few foals. Two of these, War Battle and Shipboard, both geldings, were the champion steeplechasers of 1947 and 1956 respectively, the latter out of a mare by Annapolis, so inbred 2x3 to Man O'War. Battleship's other leading earners were Tide Rips and Floating Isle. A promising gelded son, Sea Legs, looked to be on his way to a championship year in 1953, winning the International, Corinthian, and Meadow Brook Steeplechases, but broke down during the running of the Temple Gwathmey chase. Tide Rips stood at stud but sired nothing of importance, and unfortunately, Battleship's daughters ... did little as broodmares to carry the name forward.
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Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built between the 15th and 20th centuries. Battleships evolved from northern European cogs, and included carracks and galleons in the 16th Century, ships of the line in the 17th and 18th Centuries, broadside ironclads and Pre-Dreadnoughts in the 19th Century, and Dreadnoughts in the 20th Century. For over 300 years battleships ruled the waves, allowing nations such as the Netherlands, Spain, France and the United Kingdom to create and maintain trade-based overseas empires and restrain their rivals. During World War II (1939-45) they were superseded as the deciding factor at sea by aircraft carriers.
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