battlewagon

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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

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

When long-range, land-based bombers and fighters really get into action, will the flat-top be as obsolete as the battlewagon?

From Time Magazine Archive

As a scout plane pilot attached to the Colorado and later the Pennsylvania, he learned what the old-time battlewagon skippers were generally like.

From Time Magazine Archive

So when the Mekinese battlewagon came lumbering up to space, with her missile-tubes armed and bristling, Bors withdrew the Isis.

From Talents, Incorporated by Leinster, Murray