French anti-aircraft cruiser Colbert.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cruiser_Colbert_(C611)

German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper in dry dock at Kiel, May 19th 1945.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Hipper

Predreadnought battleship USS Nebraska in Seattle, Washington.

Shortly after her commissioning. Another ship with double turrets, a design that proved unsatisfactory.
Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nebraska_(BB-14)

Heavy cruiser USS Helena.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Helena_(CA-75)

Italian light cruiser Giovanni delle Bande Nere.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_cruiser_Giovanni_delle_Bande_Nere

Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser Takao, December 21st 1939..

Close-up view of the massive bridge structure that rendered those ships somewhat top-heavy.
Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Takao_(1930)

Battleship HMS Anson at anchor, Devonport, Plymouth Sound, March 1945.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Anson_(79)

Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Fuso listing as the crew is conducting localized flooding and drainage damage-control tests. April 20th 1941, Kure.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Fusō

German battleship Bismarck, launch ceremony, Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg, February 14th 1939.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Bismarck

Battleship USS North Carolina, April 17th 1942. Aerial view.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_North_Carolina_(BB-55)

Predreadnought battleship HMS Victoria firing her forward 16" guns circa 1888.

A ship with a short life for peacetime as she sank following a collision off Lebanon just a few years later.
Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victoria_(1887)

Sailor standing beside gun on the protected cruiser USS Chicago, circa 1899.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chicago_(1885)

French light cruiser Montcalm in 1937, probably in southeast Asia.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cruiser_Montcalm

Predreadnought battleship HMS King Edward VII passing New Brighton, British Columbia.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_King_Edward_VII

German battleship SMS Baden in 1917.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Baden

Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto from above.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Vittorio_Veneto

P & Q midship turrets of the battlecruiser HMS Indomitable.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Indomitable_(1907)

Battleship USS California under construction at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, summer 1921.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_California_(BB-44)

Italian battleship Caio Duilio, February 5th 1931.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Caio_Duilio

Argentine heavy cruiser Almirante Brown in 1940.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_Almirante_Brown_(C-1)

German battlecruiser SMS Hindenburg underway towards Scapa Flow, late November 1918.

In a rather rusty state after some neglect due to sailors unrest, she is sailing towards internment (Operation ZZ) amidst eleven dreadnoughts, four other battlecruisers, seven light cruisers and forty-nine destroyers under the command of Vice Admiral Ludwig von Reuter.
Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Hindenburg

French predreadnought battleship Jauréguiberry underway.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Jauréguiberry

Battleship USS Alabama off Casco Bay, Maine, during her shakedown period, December 1942.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Alabama_(BB-60)

Battleship HMS Nelson firing her main armament during practice shooting, May 7th 1942.

These gunnery trials and exercises followed her repair due to a torpedo strike in her bow by an Italian warplane on September 27th 1941, between Sardinia and Tunisia in the Mediterranean. This had occurred while she was escorting a Malta resupply convoy from Gibraltar as part of Operation Halberd.
Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Nelson_(28)

Brazilian predreadnought battleship Aquidabã off US coast, probably in 1893.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_battleship_Aquidabã