With main guns trained to port, a starboard quarter view of the USS Nevada (BB-36) underway on 25 June 1944. The ship is moving into position off Cherbourg to bombard enemy gun batteries.
USS New Jersey about to transit the Panama Canal locks. Being of a Panamax design her class only had one foot of room on either side to fit through the locks. The Iowa class were a class of four fast battleships built by the US during WW2 and were actively used for over 50 years
German battleship 'SMS Prinzregent Luitpold' opening fire on Russian positions on the Island of Ösel (Saaremaa) during the succesful German amphibious operation to capture the Moonsund Islands (known as Operation Albion), October 1917.