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  • USS Carl Vinson
    warship
    / The last capital ships

    …warship size by devising new “standard” tonnages, which excluded the weight of fuel and reserve feed water. (Standard tonnage remains a means of measuring ship displacement in many cases, and it is used here when ship tonnages are listed.) The effect of the London Treaty’s limit on cruiser tonnage was…

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    …warship size by devising new “standard” tonnages, which excluded the weight of fuel and reserve feed water. (Standard tonnage remains a means of measuring ship displacement in many cases, and it is used here when ship tonnages are listed.) The effect of the London Treaty’s limit on cruiser tonnage was…

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