When in service, it had a top speed of 33 knots. It has nine 16-inch guns. The Big J was upgraded with missile tubes and a helicopter pad during the Cold War build-up of the 1980s, and it shelled ...

With the final retirement of the United States Navy’s Iowa-class battleships in the 1990s, the days of warships armed with massive 16-inch cannons are long a thing of the past. While “guns ...