A television programme recreating the sinking of the Second World War battleship, Royal Oak, was broadcast on Grampian TV on Friday night. |
A situation might call for an Arclite barrage from a division of siege tanks or a deadly battleship salvo of a targeted area. |
Yamamoto saw the aircraft carrier as supporting the battleship rather than the other way round. |
They also learnt the lesson that the aircraft carrier rather than the battleship was to be crucial to victory in naval warfare. |
This is a legacy of the Second World War, in which the aircraft carrier replaced the battleship as the capital ship of fleets. |
The grim battle in the twilight of the Arctic Circle was the last time men of the Royal Navy faced the enemy in a battleship. |