Check out the battleship page now. I have it pretty-well polished up until the World War II section, and that should be taken care of soon. I'd like to add a little more detail to the "decline" section as needed. Carajou 19:44, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
You're probably right about the "cruiser" entry as well. Years ago I had read a lot about USS Constitution, and one of her acts was to conduct searches for British ships while under the command of William Bainbridge near the Brazilian coast. Accompanying her I believe was USS Essex, and Essex was ordered to keep a certain British ship bottled up in Bahia while Constitution went elsewhere. From what I read, the back-and-forth sailing done by Essex was called "cruising", which gave rise to "cruiser" as applied to a ship. But as I've said, it's been a long while (27 years) since I read it, so I could be wrong. Carajou 01:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)