Talk:Bismarck/@comment-1820055-20140427151417/@comment-23.28.25.108-20140511163049

to expand a bit ^

The inter-war BBs tended to be around 27-28 knots top speed, and would all be considered 'fast battleships".  (Nagato originally was a 27-knot ship, which would have surprised a lot of folks at the time.)  There are very few full-sized battleships that hit 30 knots, Bismarck being one of them.  (the French Richelieus, Itallian Littorios, and of course the Iowas.) (The German twins at 31+and the Kongos at 30 could also qualify, but the Twins were undergunned and the Kongos a bit under-sized by comparison to the Treaty battleships, so I tend not to include them.)

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