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a slang title so swaggering it made dreadnoughts sound like bar bouncers with cannons
navy slangsailors' nickname for battleships, born early 20th century
floating fortressIowa-class carried sixteen-inch guns firing 2,700-pound shells
long reachthose shells could travel over twenty miles downrange
second lifebattlewagons fired in combat into the 1991 Gulf War
steel beastsa single one displaced more than 45,000 tons