These advantages meant that battleships and battlecruisers were repeatedly sunk by carrier-based aircraft ... battlecruisers then hastily left the scene without picking up survivors.

by virtue of its smashing feat of sinking four Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) aircraft carriers—the Kaga, Akagi, Sōryū, and Hiryū—during the Battle of Midway in June 1942, one of the most ...

There is no excuse for an aircraft carrier being sunk either by gunfire or submarine attack, and any carrier so sunk was poorly operated at the time. So wrote Annapolis-trained, 34-year-old Lieut.

Furthermore, Iranian media has fantasized for years about sinking an aircraft carrier. In the country's state-controlled media, the massive ships are often seen as targets ripe for sinking.

The Government of Brazil plans to sink the decommissioned French-built Sao Paulo aircraft carrier in the middle ... French Navy pride “Foch” will be sunk in Brazilian territorial waters ...