Battlecruiser HMS Inflexible in New York, 1909.

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

French heavy cruiser Algérie.

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

Heavy cruiser HMAS Australia in October 1937.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Australia_(D84)

Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre (aka HMS Canada) probably during the 1920s.

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

Battleship USS Texas, first time through the Panama Canal on her way to the Pacific, July 25th 1919.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Texas_(BB-35)

Russian battleship Marat, Spithead fleet review for the coronation of George VI, England, May 1937. Stern view.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Petropavlovsk_(1911)

Dynamite-gun cruiser USS Vesuvius in 1891.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Vesuvius_(1888)

Battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth in 1943.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Queen_Elizabeth_(1913)

Imperial Japanese Navy battlecruiser Kongō, June 1914.

At the time, she was one of the most powerful ships afloat.
Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Kongō

Barbette and gun turret Bruno or Caesar on German battleship Bismarck, 1940.

Ship details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck

Predreadnought battleship USS Oregon in dry dock, Brooklyn Naval Yard, September 1898.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oregon_(BB-3)

Crew standing at attention in front of the superfiring quadruple turrets on the French battlecruiser/fast battleship Strasbourg in 1940.

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

Italian Littorio-class battleships at anchor in the Naval Arsenal of La Spezia harbour, 1948.

Vittorio Veneto in the foreground and Italia behind.
Class details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littorio-class_battleship

Imperial Japanese Navy predreadnought battleship Fuji at anchor, October 10th 1908.

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

Sailors line up on deck of battleship HMS King George V as she enters Apra Harbor (Guam) in 1945.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_King_George_V_(41)

Finnish coastal defence ship Väinämöinen in 1938.

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

Soviet battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya (former Gangut) in 1934.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Gangut_(1911)

Battleship USS Missouri ploughing through rough seas while accompaning carriers towards Japan, 1945.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Missouri_(BB-63)

German battlecruiser Scharnhorst returning to Kiel, April 1939.

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

Crew relaxing near main armament on the French fast battleship/battlecruiser Dunkerque.

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

Battleship USS New Mexico, October 21st 1944, Puget Sound Navy Yard.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_Mexico_(BB-40)

Argentine Navy battleship Moreno, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York City, October 1914.

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

French predreadnought battleship Charles Martel.

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

Predreadnought battleship HMS Montagu in 1903.

Ship details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Montagu_(1901)

German battleship Bismarck at the mouth of the Elbe, December 7th 1940.

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