Artwork by LunaraUrizen: https://www.deviantart.com/lunaraurizen…

USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and USS Nevada (BB-36) off the U.S. east coast, circa January 1944.

Whilst nearly capsizing during the attack on Pearl Harbor, emergency counter flooding barely managed to allow Oklahoma to settle on an even kneel. Nevada attempted to escape to the open ocean, but was eventually forced to beach herself to prevent blocking the harbor entrance after taking at least fourteen bombs.

Nevada would be repaired fairly quickly and see service throughout 1942 and 1943. Oklahoma would take much longer to return to service given both her catastrophically damaged state and other more modern battleships taking priority. She would be refloated by August of 1942, transit the Panama Canal, and spend December to June of 1943 being refitted at the Boston Navy Yard to slightly higher standards than her sister ship.

The sisters would meet again in January of 1944 (the subject of the above photo), whilst preparing to escort convoys across the Atlantic. In May, it was decided to send Oklahoma back to the Pacific to assist with amphibious operations in that theater, whilst Nevada would later assist the largest amphibious operation of all time, Operation: Overload (D-Day).

Oklahoma would be later be present as a member of Battleship Group 2 off the coast of Surgiao Strait. During the engagement with the Japanese Southern Force, Oklahoma, alongside West Virgina would land several hits on the battleship Yamashiro. One of these shells (fired from her fore twin turret, who’s barrels had been replaced with some of the aft turret barrels removed from the USS Arizona) would hit Yamashiro’s forward magazines, beginning a chain reaction that would lead to destruction of the entire ship forward of the aft conning tower.

Both ships would be present for the battle of Okinawa and be the victims of hits by Kamikaze attacks, though both ships would also remain on station. The sisters would later meet the end of the war off the coast of Japan, though neither would bombard them. After a brief stint assisting in the occupation of the home islands, they would return to the US west coast. Over thirty years old, both ships were deemed surplus to the needs of the navy. Following this, Nevada was selected as target for Operation: Crossroads nuclear tests, whilst Oklahoma was removed from the register and made available to sale as scrap.

As such, despite surviving the nuclear tests, Nevada was sunk as a target ship on 31 July 1948, whilst Oklahoma was sold for scrap on 12 July of the same year. Several artifacts of the ships survived in museums and collections across the United States, including both vessel’s bells, Nevada’s steering gear and one of her barrels (which had once belonged to the USS Arizona), one of Oklahoma’s propellers and a pair of barrels (both of which had also been taken from Arizona), and several others.

A piece I wrapped up a few days ago. I gave my best effort to try and stay true to Warrior's spirit but this is far from a perfect representation. The two line ships are fictional with some inspiration from American first rates Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Source from my tiny portfolio: https://cara.app/post/47c07da1-5ca9-4a67-93a1-7f6838047678

The Italia class battleship is the pinnacle of capital ship development in the United Kingdom of Italy and New Italy. This class of battleships was requested by Chief of Staff of the Italian Royal Navy, Great Admiral Emanuele Guccione, following the discovery of Japanese plans to build a class of battleships more powerful than the mighty Yamatos. The URSN (Ufficio Ricerca e Sviluppo Navale) developed this design according to the requirements placed by the Navy and the first of six battleships was laid down on January 6th 1941. America, second to be laid, entered service on January 18th 1944, followed by Italia on February 17th 1944 and Malesia on May 5th 1944; 3 other sisters followed them between February and October 1945. The Italia class, as the largest class of battleships ever built, proved to be a formidable asset to the Italian Royal Navy in the pursue of victory against the Empire of Japan and its powerful navy.

This battleship is built for a country that hardly reflects our Italy, and if you want to understand what I am referring to check out “Italia Invicta, the world as of 1935” post on r/Imaginarymaps in my profile. Hope you like this ship and any criticism is welcome!

Posting this outdated version of the Morakansk-class as I’m making a newer version. This old version is basically a lengthened Zeiten with aircraft. Although this one was more of a late interwar to early ww2 style warship, the newer morakansk-class is ww1 design, but gets commissioned just after the end of the war.

This is the ship I made based off the Nagato from my last post. For those that are wondering, those are 406mm triple gun turrets in an ABCY configuration and it has both 127mm and 139mm secondary guns, why? Yes…

Also the Tahed II at least in this configuration is technically only a proposed design, the actually built Tahed II is different and more conventional.

For those who don’t understand why it’s so cursed is that the forward superstructure is torn off and replaced with Long Beach’s superstructure, and the absence of any funnels suggests its designation would be something like BBVN (Battle carrier, nuclear powered). Then you have an angled flight deck to make it a battle carrier. Props whoever made it because it is detailed but it is still cursed.