The deployment of the USS Kentucky comes as US officials confirmed an American soldier was detained in North Korea after crossing the heavily armed border from South Korea.
In 1906, the naval rivalry between Germany and Britain intensified when the British launched the HMS Dreadnought , a huge battleship that made previous ones obsolete.
On February 15, the battleship Maine, riding in the harbor of Havana, was blown up and sunk, carrying to death two officers and two hundred and fifty-eight members of the crew.
In 1939, a few weeks after the start of the Second World War, a German U-boat slipped through a position just like this, into Scapa Flow and torpedoed a British battleship at anchor.
- 1939 年,第二次世界大开始几周后,一艘德国 U 型潜艇滑过这样的位置,进入斯卡帕湾,并用鱼雷击了一艘停泊的英国。
Though the German fleet failed to come out and challenge the sea power of the Allies, the battleships of the United States were always ready to do their full duty in such an event.
Instead, the Enterprise was sold to the Lipsett Corporation and scrapped in 1960. 2 – Yamato Yamato was one of the largest battleships in history - the other being its sister ship, Musashi.