battlewagon

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But of U. S. shipbuilders who can build any ship from a trawler to a battlewagon, from a tug to a liner, there are only three.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only in the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, airmen argued, had the battlewagon served as more than a fat flakship�and they were pre-Pearl Harbor ships at that.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now that the aircraft carrier has replaced the battlewagon as the Navy's capital ship, the carrier is beginning to grow.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fourth of her class,* the 35,000-ton battlewagon, ready for launching this week�seven months ahead of schedule�may be ready for deep-water service by the fall of 1942.

From Time Magazine Archive

A change here, a shift there, and the stodgy freighter becomes the fast battlewagon.

From The Misplaced Battleship by Schoenherr, John