Top 10 Surface
The ten greatest surface warships ever to put to sea — battleships, cruisers and destroyers, our pick, ranked.
Yamato
The biggest battleship ever built — 72,000 tons and 460 mm guns, the ultimate expression of the big-gun era.
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Bismarck
Sank the Hood in six minutes, then fought the whole Royal Navy — the most famous battleship of the war.
USS Iowa
The fastest battleships ever — 33 knots with nine 16-inch guns, and they served into the 1990s.
HMS Dreadnought
The ship that made every other battleship obsolete overnight and gave the whole era its name.
USS Missouri
The deck where Japan surrendered in 1945 — and she was still firing in the Gulf War.
HMS Hood
The pride of the Royal Navy for twenty years — the mighty Hood, lost with all but three of her crew.
Pyotr Velikiy
The nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruiser — the largest surface combatant afloat outside a carrier.
USS Zumwalt
A 16,000-ton stealth destroyer that looks like a spaceship — the most advanced surface ship ever commissioned.
USS Arleigh Burke
The Aegis destroyer that defines the modern fleet — over 70 built and still counting.
USS Johnston
A destroyer that charged battleships off Samar — Taffy 3's finest hour, the bravest ship in the US Navy.