a government ship that is available for waging war

battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber

a small battleship built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament (from 1925 to 1930)

a type of sea-going battleships built between the mid- to late-1880s and 1905, before the launch of HMS Dreadnought.

a battleship which emphasized speed without — in concept — undue compromise of either armor or armament.