Summary: The Yamato, commissioned in 1941, was the largest battleship ever built, marking the peak of battleship engineering before becoming obsolete with the advent of aircraft carriers post ...

Yamato met a similar fate in 1945 while on a mission to defend Okinawa, overwhelmed by U.S. carrier-based aircraft. -Shinano, converted into an aircraft carrier, was sunk by the USS Archerfish ...

The Yamato was sunk by U.S. carrier-borne aircraft on April 7, 1945, as it sailed toward Okinawa where its commanders were ordered to beach the vessel and use its mighty arsenal as a gun battery.

Needless to say, it's also a very different type of ship to a battleship like Japan's Yamato. Carriers are so big because they need the capacity to transport aircraft, as well as allow for their ...