Battlecruisers were a unique class of warship designed to combine the heavy guns of a battleship with the speed of a cruiser, ...

4 Points You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy might have begun World War II with faster battlecruisers had it prioritized building them after World War I, instead of slow, heavily armored battleships.

Perhaps a Lexington battlecruiser would have shared a similar fate – it’s certainly possible, given how in demand the versatile vessels would have been. Regardless, battlecruisers or no ...

The United States, on the other hand, focused entirely on battleships. Not until the 1910s, when it became apparent that Japan was about to acquire four large, fast battlecruisers, did the USN ...

The American aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga were built in the 1920s, converted from the unfinished hulls of battlecruisers made redundant by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. One of ...

According to Allen's website, the Lexington was originally commissioned as a battlecruiser but was launched as an aircraft carrier in 1925. The giant ship took part in the Coral Sea conflict along ...