** Dr. Karl Muck, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is arrested under the Alien Enemies Act and imprisoned for the duration of WWI.

** WWI: is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland by German submarine U-55 ; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.

** WWI: Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the Allies.

** British battleship HMS Britannia is sunk by German submarine U-50 off Trafalgar with the loss of around fifty lives, the last major naval engagement of WWI.

** WWI ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies between 5: 12 AM and 5: 20 AM in Marshal Foch ’ s railroad car in Compiègne Forest in France.

** WWI: The Nivelle Offensive commences.

** WWI: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence capture Aqaba from the Turks.

** WWI: A conscription crisis in Canada leads to passage of the Military Service Act.

** WWI: Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.

** WWI: Third Battle of Gaza: United Kingdom forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U. S. ships take a submarine ( which is then scuttled ).

** WWI: Battle of Cambrai: British forces, using tanks, make early progress in an attack on German positions but are soon beaten back.

** WWI: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy force SMS Dresden to scuttle.

** Harry Patch, British WWI soldier, last Tommy Atkins ( d. 2009 )

** WWI Document Archive > St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Certain Explosive Projectiles

** Russian battleship Imperator Aleksander III Russian warship

** The Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk north of Okinawa while enroute on a suicide mission.

** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

** Twenty-four ships are sunk by German bombers and submarines after Convoy PQ 17 to the Soviet Union is scattered in the Arctic Ocean to evade the German battleship Tirpitz.

** Battle of Guadalcanal: Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink the Japanese battleship Hiei.

** WWII: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian battleship fleet anchored at Taranto naval base.

** A gun turret explodes on the U. S. battleship Iowa, killing 47 crew members.

** Aurora class battleship, a ship in the Stargate franchise

** Greek battleship Salamis a dreadnought ordered from Germany by Greece in 1912 but not delivered due to the outbreak of World War I

** A battleship in 1875

** 1 battleship: ( damaged )

**, a battleship

**, a battleship

** Japanese battleship Yamato, lead ship of the Yamato class, named after the Yamato Province

** Tosa class battleship

** Luftwaffe Dornier Do 217 bombers sink the Italian battleship Roma west of Corsica with two Fritz X radio-controlled glide bombs as she steams to surrender to the Allies ; 1, 253 of the 1, 849 aboard are lost.

** A kamikaze damages the battleship off Okinawa, killing 11 and wounding 49.

** 386 carrier aircraft of Task Force 58 attack an Imperial Japanese Navy task force bound for Okinawa while it is steaming in the East China Sea, sinking the battleship Yamato, the light cruiser Yahagi, and four of their eight escorting destroyers.

** The Royal Navy conducts the first launch of an aircraft from a battleship or battlecruiser, when Royal Naval Air Service Flight Commander F. J. Rutland takes off in a Sopwith Pup fighter from a platform mounted on a 15-inch ( 381-mm ) gun turret of the battlecruiser.

** 1 battleship:

** Japanese battleship Satsuma, a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy

** Revenge class battleship

** The HMS Hampshire sinks off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard.

** British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Rhodesian Prime minister Ian Smith negotiate on the HMS Tiger in the Mediterranean.

** Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched.

** Falklands War: The nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors.

** Falklands War: HMS Ardent is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors.

** HMS Sunfish ( 1895 ), the first Sunfish destroyer, launched in 1895

** HMS Sunfish ( 81S ), an S-Class submarine, launched in 1936

** Most famously HMS Terror ( 1813 ), sister ship of HMS Erebus and involved in Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition through the Arctic

** HMS Norwich ( 1691 )

** HMS Norwich ( 1693 )

** HMS Norwich ( 1745 )

** HMS Surprise ( novel ), a 1973 historical naval novel by Patrick O ' Brian

** RNAS Stretton ( HMS Blackcap )

** HMS Sultana ( 2001 ), a replica of the 1768 schooner launched in 2001 at Chestertown, Maryland

** HMS Driver ( 1840 )

** HMS Bristol

** HMS Daring ( D32 )

** HMS Dauntless ( D33 )

** HMS Diamond ( D34 )

** HMS Dragon ( D35 )

** HMS Defender ( D36 ) ( not yet in service )

** HMS Duncan ( D37 ) ( not yet in service )