Talk:Capital ship

message: I disagree with this definition of a "capital ship." SSBNs are such that they should be considered in this manner as well. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 03:47, 2005 Jan 8 (UTC)
:Perhaps a better way for the article is to say is that the concept of "capital ship" has become ill-defined, seeing as how things like SSBNs are not warfighters, at least in the usual tactical sense, and that navies don't really count capital ships any more. Stan 06:00, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition

message: Anything about Capital ships in popular culture? --121.6.184.26 09:42, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular Culture 

message: The section with size ratings: "1st Rate: 100 or more guns ... 2nd Rate: 90–98 guns ... 3rd Rate: 64 to 80 guns" has gaps in the gun count ranges.  Where would ships with 99 guns fit, or ships with 81 to 89 guns?  Do such ships simply not exist?  Are ships with fewer than 64 guns by definition not capital ships?  That section either needs source citation + a brief explanation, or it needs to have continuous numeric ranges.  Memetics (talk) 20:39, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ships never had odd numbers of guns 'rated', because of the broadside arrangement taken by such ships; a 100-gun ship-of-the-line would have 50 guns on either side of the ship, for a total of 100. It was not considered reasonable to have different numbers of guns on either side, and their design didn't allow for a gun to fire to either side. Nottheking (talk) 07:33, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gun counts and ship sizes 

message: Where is the citation for the statement that "They were generally considered as capital ships"?
This class were not battleships or battlecruisers, they were "panzerschiffe" or armored ships,
Germany attempted to negotiate building capital ships instead of the Deutschland's. 
In the Washington Treaty era there was a fairly clearly established deliniation between capital ships and other ships. The only difference between these ships and treaty cruisers (limited to 10,000 tons & 8" guns) was the fact that the had heavier guns, however other ships with greater displacement and heavier guns such as the Duke of Edinburgh class (14,000 tons, 6 x 9.2" guns, 12 x 6" guns} were never considered "Capital Ships". Abraxas42 (talk) 19:41, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Deutschland class - missing citation

message: It seems to me that command of a Capital Ship would define the (US) Navy rank of Captain (an O6 grade equivalent to Colonel in the Army or Air Force). But this article doesn't say anything about the command structure, just tonnage and number of guns.  From a military point of view the minimum rank of a capital ship's commanding officer would be part of the definition of what makes a Capital Ship, surely? Silas Maxfield (talk) 02:16, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Wouldn't we get into capital ships vs. command ships then? c.f. Amphibious Command Ship Hcobb (talk) 03:23, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rank of ship's Captain. 

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message: Are flagships and capital ships the same thing?Inkan1969 (talk) 21:21, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The answer is in the article you linked to: "In common naval use, the term flagship is fundamentally a temporary designation; the flagship is wherever the admiral's flag is being flown." pburka (talk) 21:35, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flagship?