List of sunken battleships

Sunken battleships are the wrecks of large capital ships built from the 1880s to the mid-20th century that were either destroyed in battle, mined, deliberately destroyed in a weapons test, or scuttled. The battleship, as the might of a nation personified in a warship, played a vital role in the prestige, diplomacy, and military strategies of 20th century nations. The importance placed on battleships also meant massive arms races between the great powers of the 20th century such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, United States, France, Italy, Russia, and the Soviet Union.

A list of sunken battleships. Red symbols sunken battleships, purple symbols denote battleships sunk as aircraft carriers, and stars denote more than one battleship in an area.

The term "battleship" first entered common parlance to describe certain types of ironclad warships in the 1880s,^[1] now referred to as pre-dreadnoughts. The commissioning and putting to sea of HMS Dreadnought, in part inspired by the results of the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905,^[2] marked the dawn of a new era in naval warfare and defining an entire generation of warships: the battleships. This first generation, known as the "Dreadnoughts", came to be built in rapid succession in Europe, the Americas, and Japan with ever more tension growing between the major naval powers. However, despite the enormous sums of money and resources dedicated to the construction and maintenance of the increasing number of battleships in the world, they typically saw little combat. With the exception of the naval battles of the Russo-Japanese War and Jutland, which would be one of the last large-scale battles between capital ships,^[3] no decisive naval battles between battleships were fought. When the First World War ended in 1918, much of the German High Seas Fleet was escorted to Scapa Flow, where almost all of the fleet was scuttled to prevent its being divided amongst the victorious Allies. Numerous other battleships were scuttled for similar reasoning.

Between the wars, the Washington Naval Treaty and the subsequent London Naval Treaty limited the tonnage and firepower of capital ships permitted to the navies of the world. The United Kingdom and the United States scrapped many of their aging dreadnoughts, while the Japanese began converting battlecruisers into fast battleships in the 1930s. In 1936, Italy and Japan refused to sign the Second London Naval Treaty and withdrew from the earlier treaties, prompting the United States and the United Kingdom to invoke an escalator clause in the treaty that allowed them to increase the displacement and armament of planned ships. The naval combat of World War II saw many battleships belonging to the various nations destroyed as air power began to be realized as being crucial to naval warfare, rather than massive capital ships. As the battleship began to fall out of favor, some captured capital ships were decommissioned, stripped, and deliberately sunk in nuclear weapons tests.

Losses

Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle. The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone,^[4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits to several guns, the conning tower, and the water line or below it, which became the cause of the ship's sinking.^[5][6] Battleships also proved to be very vulnerable to mines, as was evidenced in the Russo-Japanese War and both World Wars. After the Battle of Port Arthur,^[7] a number of Russian and Japanese vessels were struck by mines and either sank or were scuttled to prevent their capture. A decade later, the Marine Nationale and Royal Navy lost three battleships, HMS Irresistible, HMS Ocean, and Bouvet, to Turkish mines in the waters of the Dardanelles. Torpedoes were also very capable of sinking battleships. On 21 November 1944, USS Sealion sank Kongō with over 1200 casualties.^[8] HMS Barham was struck by three torpedoes fired from German submarine U-331.^[a] Barham could not make an attempt to dodge the incoming torpedoes and sank with 862 fatalities as a result of several magazine explosions that occurred after she had initially been hit by U-331's torpedoes.^[11]

Although mines and torpedoes constantly threatened the battleship's dominance, it was the refinement of aerial technology and tactics that led to the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the most important naval vessel. Initially, the large scale use of aircraft in naval combat was underrated and the idea that they could destroy battleships was dismissed. Still, the United States and the Japanese Empire experimented with offensive roles for aircraft carriers in their fleets.^[12] One pioneer of aviation in a naval role was US Army General Billy Mitchell, who commandeered SMS Ostfriesland for testing of his theory in July 1921. Though these tests did not impress his contemporaries, they forced the US Navy to begin diverting some of its budget towards researching the matter further.^[13] The belief that the aircraft carrier was junior to the battleship began to evaporate when the Imperial Japanese Navy, in a surprise attack, nearly destroyed the United States Pacific Fleet while it was at anchor at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.^[14] The captain of the Bismarck, Ernst Lindemann, had almost dodged the Royal Navy until he was undone by British reconnaissance aircraft. Although almost every sea battle in World War II involved gunfire between surface warships to some degree, their time as the senior ship of a nation's fleet had run its course.^[15]

Those battleships belonging to the Central Powers that survived World War I often did not survive its aftermath. The German High Seas Fleet was scuttled at Scapa Flow by its sailors in June 1919 following their surrender and internment the previous November.^[16] On 1 November 1918, as the Austrian battleship Viribus Unitis was being transferred to the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, she was mined and sunk at Pola by two Italian frogmen, Raffaele Paolucci [it] and Raffaele Rossetti, who were unaware of the transfer.^[17] On 27 November 1942 the Vichy French government scuttled the majority of the French fleet at Toulon.^[18]

Sunk in combat

Name	Navy	Casualties	Date sunk	Location	Condition	Relics	Image
Poltava[b]	Imperial Russian Navy	—	5 December 1904[19]	Port Arthur[19]	Scrapped[23]	—
Pobeda[c]	Imperial Russian Navy	—	7 December 1904[26]	Port Arthur[19]	Scrapped[26]	—
Oslyabya	Imperial Russian Navy	470–514 killed[d]	27 May 1905[4]	Tsushima Strait[28]	Unknown	—
Imperator Aleksandr III	Imperial Russian Navy	Lost with all hands[29]	27 May 1905[30]	Tsushima Strait[31]	Unknown	—
Borodino	Imperial Russian Navy	854 killed, 1 captured[31]	27 May 1905[32]	Tsushima Strait[30]	Unknown	—
Knyaz Suvorov	Imperial Russian Navy	908 killed, 20 captured[29]	27 May 1905[33]	Tsushima Strait[30]	Unknown	—
Navarin	Imperial Russian Navy	741 killed, 1 captured[34][35]	28 May 1905[36]	Tsushima Strait[35]	Unknown	—
Sissoi Veliky	Imperial Russian Navy	47 killed, 613 captured[37]	28 May 1905[38]	Tsushima Strait[30]	Unknown	—
HMS Formidable	Royal Navy	547 killed[39]	1 January 1915[39]	50°13′N 3°4′W Off Portland Bill, English Channel[39]	Unknown	—
HMS Irresistible	Royal Navy	150 killed[40]	18 March 1915[41]	Dardanelles[12]	Unknown	—
HMS Goliath	Royal Navy	570 killed[42]	13 May 1915[42]	Dardanelles[42]	Unknown	—
HMS Triumph[e]	Royal Navy	78 killed[44]	25 May 1915[44]	Near Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli Peninsula[44]	Unknown	—
HMS Majestic	Royal Navy	40–49 killed[f]	27 May 1915[46]	40°02′30″N 26°11′02″E Cape Helles, Gallipoli Peninsula[46]	Unknown	—
Barbaros Hayreddin[g]	Ottoman Navy	258 killed[48]	8 August 1915[49]	Dardanelles[50]	Unknown	—
SMS Pommern	Imperial German Navy	Lost with all hands[51]	1 June 1916[51]	North Sea[52]	Unknown	—
Suffren	French Navy	Lost with all hands[53]	26 November 1916[53]	39°10′N 10°48′W Off Lisbon, Portugal[53]	Unknown	—
Gaulois	French Navy	Four killed[54]	27 December 1916[55]	36°15′N 23°42′E Off Cape Maleas, Aegean Sea[54]	Unknown	—
HMS Cornwallis	Royal Navy	15 killed[56]	9 January 1917[57]	35°06′N 15°11′E Off Malta[57][58]	Unknown	—
Danton	French Navy	296 killed[59]	19 March 1917[59]	38°45′35″N 8°3′30″E Mediterranean Sea[59]	Upright under 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) of water.[59]	—
SMS Szent István	Austro-Hungarian Navy	89 killed[60]	10 June 1918[60]	44°12′07″N 14°27′05″E Premuda, Adriatic Sea	Capsized under 66 meters (217 ft) of water.[61]	—
SMS Viribus Unitis	Austro-Hungarian Navy	300 killed[62]	1 November 1918[62]	44°52′9″N 13°49′9″E Pula, Croatia[62]	Unknown	—
HMS Britannia	Royal Navy	50 killed, 80 injured[63]	9 November 1918[64]	35°53′N 5°53′W Off Cape Trafalgar, Strait of Gibraltar[64]	Unknown	—
HMS Royal Oak	Royal Navy	833 killed[65]	14 October 1939[66]	58°55′N 2°59′W Scapa Flow[67]	Capsized under 33 meters (108 ft) of water.[68]	Royal Oak's bell is the centerpiece to a memorial to those who died aboard Royal Oak at St Magnus' Cathedral in Kirkwall.[69]
Bretagne	French Navy	977 killed[70]	3 July 1940[71]	Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria[71]	Scrapped[72]	—
Kilkis[h]	Royal Hellenic Navy	—	23 April 1941[74]	Salamis Naval Base, near Salamis[74]	Scrapped[75]	—
Lemnos[i]	Royal Hellenic Navy	—	23 April 1941[74]	Salamis Naval Base, near Salamis[74]	Scrapped[77]	—
Bismarck	Kriegsmarine	2086 killed, 115 captured.[78]	27 May 1941[79]	48°10′N 16°12′W 650 kilometers (400 mi) from Brest, North Atlantic[80]	Bismarck was found in great condition. She sank after being heavily bombarded by British ships. Bismarck sank stern first in her plunge to the ocean floor. Her bridge and stern ripped away as she spiraled downwards, and as she settled on the side of an extinct underwater volcano, the down blast from all the water she displaced hit her and caused her to slide down the volcano on a water avalanche of sorts. Soon a mud slide occurred due to the shifting of the soil caused by the massive ship and it began to carry her down. She finally settled upright under 4,791 meters (15,719 ft) of water. She slid half a mile.[80]	—
Marat[j]	Soviet Navy	326 killed[83]	23 September 1941[83]	Leningrad[83]	Scrapped[82]	—
HMS Barham	Royal Navy	862 killed[84][85]	25 November 1941[86]	32°34′N 26°24′E Off Egypt[84]	Unknown	—
USS Arizona	United States Navy	1177 killed[87]	7 December 1941[88]	21°21′53″N 157°57′0″W Pearl Harbor[87]	Heavily damaged as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor. After being struck off the Naval Vessel Register on 1 December 1942, Arizona was found to be in such terrible condition that she could not be made serviceable again even after salvaging.[89] Arizona's surviving superstructure was removed in 1942, followed by her main armament over the next year and a half.[90]	The amidships section had served as a ceremonial platform on the wreck but was cut away to make room for today's overlying memorial. One of the ship's bells is at the University of Arizona,[91] an anchor and a restored gun barrel is located at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza, and several of her guns were later used aboard USS Nevada.[92] Other artifacts from the ship, such as items from the ship's silver service, are on permanent exhibit in the Arizona State Capitol Museum.[93]
USS Utah	United States Navy	64 killed[94]	7 December 1941[94]	21°22′7″N 157°57′44″W Pearl Harbor	Utah capsized during the attack, and was partially salvaged but not recovered.[95] Utah's wreck is almost completely submerged, with a small amount of highly corroded superstructure visible above the surface.[94]	In 1972, a memorial consisting of a 70 ft (21 m) walkway from nearby Ford Island that terminates in a platform with a flagpole and a plaque.[96] Other relics of the Utah are preserved at the Utah State Capitol and are regularly on display.[97]
HMS Prince of Wales	Royal Navy	327 killed[98]	10 December 1941[99]	3°33′36″N 104°28′42″E South China Sea[100]	Capsized under 71 meters (233 ft) of water. Reported to have been heavily salvaged.[100]	Prince of Wale's bell was recovered, restored, and displayed in the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool.[100]
Asahi	Imperial Japanese Navy	16 killed[101]	25 May 1942[102]	10°N 110°E 100 miles (160 km) from Cape Paderan, Vietnam[102]	Unknown	—
Hiei	Imperial Japanese Navy	188 killed[103]	13 November 1942[103]	9°N 159°E Off Guadalcanal[104]	Capsized under 900 meters (3,000 ft) of water.[105]	—
Kirishima	Imperial Japanese Navy	212 killed[106]	15 November 1942[106]	Off Guadalcanal[104]	Capsized under 1,100 meters (3,600 ft) of water.[107]	—
Roma	Regia Marina	1393 killed[108]	9 September 1943[109]	41°9′28″N 8°17′35″E 30 kilometers (19 mi) north of Sardinia	Capsized and blown in half under 1,000 meters (3,300 ft).[110]	—
Scharnhorst	Kriegsmarine	1932 killed, 36 captured[111]	26 December 1943[112]	72°16′N 28°41′E near the Norwegian North Cape[113]	Capsized under 290 meters (950 ft).[114]	—
Strasbourg	French Navy	—	18 August 1944[115]	Bay of Lazaret[115]	Scrapped[115]	—
Jean Bart[k]	French Navy	—	28 August 1944[117]	Toulon, France[117]	Scrapped[118]	—
Musashi	Imperial Japanese Navy	1023 killed[119]	24 October 1944[120]	13°7′N 122°32′E Sibuyan Sea[121]	Heavily damaged and in multiple pieces under 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) of water.[122][123]	—
Fusō	Imperial Japanese Navy	1620 killed[124]	25 October 1944[124]	Surigao Strait[124]	Capsized 185 meters (607 ft) of water with pagoda mast snapped off.[125]	—
Yamashiro	Imperial Japanese Navy	1626 killed[126]	25 October 1944[127]	Surigao Strait[127]	Capsized in 191 meters (627 ft) of water with bow folded back over the keel of the rest of the hull, and engine room collapsed.[128]	—
Tirpitz	Kriegsmarine	950–1204 killed[l]	12 November 1944[113]	69°38′50″N 18°48′30″E Håkøybotn Bay, Norway[134]	Somewhat salvaged after the Second World War.[131]	—
Kongō	Imperial Japanese Navy	1250 killed[106]	21 November 1944[135]	26°9′N 121°23′E Taiwan Strait[135]	Unknown	—
Conte di Cavour	Regia Marina	—	23 February 1945[136]	Taranto Harbor[137]	Scrapped[138]	—
Yamato	Imperial Japanese Navy	3055 killed[139]	7 April 1945[140]	30°22′N 128°4′E East China Sea[141]	Broken in half under 340 meters (1,120 ft) of water.[141]	—
Haruna	Imperial Japanese Navy	65 killed[106]	24 July 1945[106]	Kure, Japan[106]	Scrapped[106]	—
Settsu	Imperial Japanese Navy	—	29 July 1945[142]	Kure, Japan[142]	Scrapped[142]	—
Ise	Imperial Japanese Navy	50 killed[143]	28 July 1945[143]	Kure, Japan[143]	Scrapped[143]	—
Hyūga	Imperial Japanese Navy	200+ killed[144]	1 August 1945[144]	34°10′N 132°33′E Kure, Japan[144]	Scrapped[144]	—

Converted battleships

Name	Navy	Casualties	Date sunk	Location	Condition	Image
Kaga	Imperial Japanese Navy	811 killed[145]	4 June 1942[146]	30°23′N 179°17′W	Unknown
HMS Eagle	Royal Navy	131 killed[147]	11 August 1942[147]	38°3′0″N 3°1′12″E near Majorca[147]	Unknown
Shinano	Imperial Japanese Navy	1435 killed[148]	29 November 1944[148]	32°7′N 137°4′E 105 kilometers (65 mi) south of mainland Japan.[148]	Unknown

Lost at sea

Name	Navy	Casualties	Date sunk	Location	Condition	Image
Petropavlovsk	Imperial Russian Navy	679 killed[149]	13 April 1904[150]	Yellow Sea[151]	Unknown
Hatsuse	Imperial Japanese Navy	496 killed[152]	15 May 1904[153]	38°37′N 121°20′E Yellow Sea[154]	Unknown
Yashima	Imperial Japanese Navy	—	15 May 1904[155]	38°34′N 121°40′E Yellow Sea[156]	Unknown
HMS Montagu	Royal Navy	—	30 May 1906[157]	Lundy Island, England[157]	Almost entirely salvaged.[158]
Iéna	French Navy	120 killed[159]	12 March 1907[160]	Toulon, France[160]	Scrapped[161]
Liberté	French Navy	250 killed[162]	25 September 1911[162]	Toulon, France[163]	Scrapped[163]
HMS Audacious	Royal Navy	One killed[164]	27 October 1914[164]	55°32′16″N 7°24′33″W 39 kilometers (24 mi) of Tory Island[165]	Capsized under 64 meters (210 ft) of water.[166][165]
HMS Bulwark	Royal Navy	736 killed[167]	26 November 1914[167]	51°25′N 0°39′E Off Sheerness, England[167]	Unknown
HMS Ocean	Royal Navy	Unknown	18 March 1915[168]	Dardanelles[168]	Unknown
Bouvet	French Navy	639 killed[55]	18 March 1915[169]	40°01′15″N 26°16′30″E Dardanelles[169]	Unknown
Benedetto Brin	Regia Marina	454 killed[170]	27 September 1915[170]	Brindisi, Italy[170]	Unknown
HMS King Edward VII	Royal Navy	—	6 January 1916[171]	Off Cape Wrath, Scotland.[171]	Capsized under 108 meters (354 ft) of water.[172]
HMS Russell	Royal Navy	125 killed[173]	27 April 1916[174]	35°54′N 14°36′E Off Valletta, Malta[173][174]	Capsized under 110 meters (360 ft) of water.[173][174]
Leonardo da Vinci	Regia Marina	448 killed[175]	2 August 1916[176]	Taranto, Italy[177]	Scrapped[176][178]
Imperatritsa Mariya	Imperial Russian Navy	228 killed[179]	20 October 1916[180]	Sevastopol, Ukraine[180]	Scrapped[181]
Regina Margherita	Regia Marina	675 killed[182]	12 December 1916[183]	Off Valona, Albania[183]	Laying on her starboard side under 68 meters (223 ft).[184]
Peresvet[m]	Imperial Russian Navy	116–167 killed[n]	4 January 1917[187]	Off Port Said, Egypt[187]	Unknown
HMS Vanguard	Royal Navy	843 killed[189]	9 July 1917[190]	58°51′24″N 3°6′22″W Scapa Flow[190]	Unknown, rests under 14.2 meters (47 ft) of water.[190]
Kawachi	Imperial Japanese Navy	600–700 killed[o]	2 July 1918[193]	34°0′N 131°36′E	Partially salvaged.[195]
HMS Prince George[p]	Royal Navy	—	30 December 1921[196]	52°44′5″N 4°38′23″E Off Camperduin, the Netherlands[196]	Upright and visible from shore, partially scrapped.[196]
France	French Navy	Three killed[197]	26 August 1922[197]	47°27′6″N 3°2′0″W Quiberon Bay, France[197]	Unknown
España	Spanish Navy	—	26 August 1923[198]	Cape Tres Forcas, Morocco[198]	Somewhat salvaged, including a 305 mm (12.0 in) and a 102 mm (4.0 in) gun, but mostly destroyed by severe storms.[198]
Alfonso XIII[q]	Spanish Navy	Five killed[200]	30 April 1937[200]	43°31′26″N 3°40′44″W Off Santander, Spain[200]	Unknown
Jaime I	Spanish Republican Navy	—	17 June 1937[201]	Cartagena, Spain	Scrapped[202]
Ilmarinen	Finnish Navy	271 killed[203]	13 September 1941[203]	Gulf of Finland[203]	Capsized upside down under 80 meters (262 ft), declared as a war grave.[203]
Mutsu	Imperial Japanese Navy	1121 killed[204]	8 June 1943[205]	33°58′N 132°24′E Seto Inland Sea[205]	Due to salvaging efforts that ceased in the 1990s,[205] the only major piece of the wreckage that remains is a 35-meter (115 ft) stretch of the hull from the bridge to turret No. 1 at a depth of about 12 meters (39 ft).[206]
Schlesien	Kriegsmarine	—	3 May 1945[207]	Off Zinnowitz, Germany[207]	Scrapped[208][207]
USS Oklahoma	United States Navy	—	17 May 1947[209]	Unknown, northeast of Hawaii[209]	Capsized in Pearl Harbor Attack. Salvaged.
São Paulo	Brazilian Navy	—	November 1951[210]	Unknown	Unknown
Novorossiysk[r]	Soviet Navy	608 killed[212]	29 October 1955	44°37′7″N 33°32′8″E Sevastopol, Ukraine	Scrapped[213]

Scuttled battleships

Name	Navy	Casualties	Date sunk	Location	Condition	Relics	Image
Sevastopol	Imperial Russian Navy	11 killed[214]	2 January 1905[215]	Port Arthur[214]	Unknown	—
HMS Hood	Royal Navy	—	4 November 1914[216]	50°34′9″N 2°25′16″W Portland Harbour[216]	—	—
Masséna	French Navy	—	9 November 1915[217]	Cape Helles, Gallipoli[217]	Unknown	—
Slava	Imperial Russian Navy	Three killed[218]	17 October 1917[219]	Moon Sound, Estonia[219]	Scrapped[220]	—
Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya[s]	Imperial Russian Navy	—	18 June 1918[181]	44°42′23″N 37°48′43″E Novorossiysk, Russia[181]	Unknown	—
SMS König	Imperial German Navy	—	21 June 1919[223]	Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow[223]	Capsized under about 35 meters (115 ft) of water.[224] Somewhat damaged by metal scavenging.[225]	—
Kronprinz Wilhelm	Imperial German Navy	One killed[226]	21 June 1919[226]	Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow[226]	Capsized under about 45 meters (148 ft) of water.[227]	—
SMS Markgraf	Imperial German Navy	Two killed[228]	21 June 1919[228]	Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow[228]	Capsized under about 45 meters (148 ft) of water.[229]	—
SMS Kaiser	Imperial German Navy	—	21 June 1919[230]	Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow[230]	Scrapped[230]	—
SMS Friedrich der Grosse	Imperial German Navy	—	21 June 1919[230]	Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow[230]	Scrapped[230]	Friedrich der Grosse's bell was returned to the Federal Republic of Germany and today is on display at the German Navy sea base at Glücksburg.[230]
SMS Kaiserin	Imperial German Navy	—	21 June 1919[230]	Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow[230]	Scrapped[230]	—
SMS Prinzregent Luitpold	Imperial German Navy	—	21 June 1919[230]	Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow[230]	Scrapped[230]	—
SMS König Albert	Imperial German Navy	—	21 June 1919[230]	Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow[230]	Scrapped[230]	—
SMS Grosser Kurfürst	Imperial German Navy	—	21 June 1919[223]	Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow[223]	Scrapped[223]	Grosser Kurfürst's bell was purchased at auction by the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, Hampshire.[231]
SMS Bayern	Imperial German Navy	—	21 June 1919[232]	Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow[232]	Scrapped[232]	Bayern's bell is on display at the Kiel Fördeklub.[232]
Rostislav	Imperial Russian Navy	—	November 1920[233]	45°25′0″N 36°37′43″E Strait of Kerch[233]	Partially salvaged, reported to be extant albeit sinking into silt.[234]	—
Dunkerque	French Navy	—	27 November 1942[235]	Toulon, France[235]	Scrapped[235]	—
Provence	French Navy		27 November 1942[72]	Toulon, France[72]	Scrapped[72]	—
HMS Centurion	Royal Navy	—	9 June 1944[236]	Off Normandy[236]	Unknown	HMS Centurion's badge is on display at Shugborough Hall.[237]
Courbet	French Navy	—	9 June 1944[238]	Off Sword Beach, Normandy[238]	Scrapped[238]	—
Schleswig-Holstein	Kriegsmarine	—	21 March 1945[239]	Off Osmussaar, Gulf of Finland[240]	Wreckage buried in 1966.[241]	Schleswig-Holstein's bell is on display in the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden as of 1990.[208]
Gneisenau	Kriegsmarine	—	27 March 1945[242][243]	Gotenhafen (Gdynia), Poland[243]	Scrapped[244]	Her aft main turret was removed and placed at Austrått Fort, near Trondheim, as the coastal gun "Orlandert."[243]
Zähringen	Kriegsmarine	—	26 March 1945[245]	Gotenhafen (Gdynia), Poland[245]	Scrapped[245]	—

Expended as targets

Name	Navy	Date sunk	Location	Condition	Image
USS Texas[t]	United States Navy	22 March 1912[247]	37°43′10″N 76°05′0″W Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay[247]	Remains demolished and buried[248]
HMS Empress of India	Royal Navy	4 November 1913[249]	Lyme Bay[249]	Capsized under about 32 meters (105 ft) of water.[250]
Iki[u]	Imperial Japanese Navy	3 October 1915[251]	Unknown	Unknown
USS Indiana	United States Navy	1 November 1920[252]	Chesapeake Bay[252]	Scrapped[252]
USS Massachusetts	United States Navy	January 1921[253]	Off Pensacola, Florida[254]	Sunk as an artificial reef[254]
SMS Ostfriesland	Imperial German Navy	21 July 1921[255]	37°9′8″N 74°34′3″W Chesapeake Bay[255]	Lying upside down under 370 feet of water.[256]
SMS Baden	Imperial German Navy	16 August 1921[257]	49°49′42″N 2°23′21″W Hurd Deep, English Channel[257]	Unknown, under 180 meters (590 ft) of water.[257]
USS Alabama	United States Navy	27 September 1921[258]	Chesapeake Bay[258]	Scrapped[258]
SMS Prinz Eugen	Austro-Hungarian Navy	June 1922[259]	Near Toulon[259]	Unknown
USS Iowa[v]	United States Navy	23 March 1923[260] [261]	Gulf of Panama[260]	Unknown
USS New Jersey	United States Navy	5 September 1923[262]	Diamond Shoals, Cape Hatteras[262]	Upside down in 320 feet of water.[263]
USS Virginia	United States Navy	5 September 1923[264]	Diamond Shoals, Cape Hatteras[264]	Upside down under 385 feet of water.[265]
Hizen[w]	Imperial Japanese Navy	25 July 1924[266]	Bungo Channel[267]	Unknown
Iwami[x]	Imperial Japanese Navy	10 July 1924[268]	Off Jōgashima, Tokyo Bay[268]	Unknown
Aki	Imperial Japanese Navy	2 September 1924[194]	35°1′30″N 139°51′22″E Tokyo Bay[194]	Unknown
Satsuma	Imperial Japanese Navy	7 September 1924[269]	Bōsō Peninsula, Tokyo Bay[269]	Unknown
HMS Monarch	Royal Navy	21 January 1925[270]	Hurd's Deep[270]	Unknown
HMS Emperor of India	Royal Navy	6 June 1931[271]	Owers Bank[271]	Scrapped[272]
USS Arkansas	United States Navy	25 July 1946[273]	Bikini Atoll[274]	Capsized under 180 feet (55 m) of water.[274] Participated in Operation Crossroads.[273]
Nagato	Imperial Japanese Navy	30 July 1946[275]	Bikini Atoll[276]	Capsized under 33.5 meters (110 ft) of water.[277] Participated in Operation Crossroads.[275]
USS Pennsylvania	United States Navy	10 February 1948[278]	Off Kwajalein Atoll[278]	Participated in Operation Crossroads[278]
USS New York	United States Navy	8 July 1948[279]	Pacific Ocean[279]	Participated in Operation Crossroads[279]
USS Nevada	United States Navy	31 July 1948[280]	About 60–65 miles (97–105 km) off Pearl Harbor[280]	Participated in Operation Crossroads, but was sunk by naval aircraft.[281]

See also

• List of sunken battlecruisers
• List of sunken aircraft carriers
• List of sunken nuclear submarines