Sweden had several small coastal-defense battleships, one of which, Gustav V, survived until 1970.
Rio Branco, in support of this measure, stated that "with six small battleships we would be much better.
Both countries were put under significant pressure from the other signatories to use their allotted tonnage to build smaller battleships with reduced caliber main batteries.
The smaller battleships continued to be blind-and had to rely on orders from the main ship, which was guiding their attack.
Another glance in the mirror showed me the twin head-lamps of a powerful car about the size of a small battleship.
This scheme followed, in fact, not quite a cruiser layout, but that of a small battleship.
Jin troops had less and smaller battleships and were not good at battles on water, though they outnumbered their enemies.
First to the armory, where he clambered stiffly out of his small battleship and gave orders concerning its storage.
In 1904, Brazil began a major naval building program that included three 11,800-long-ton small battleships.
Authorized in 1890 and commissioned six years later, she was a small battleship, though with heavy armor and ordnance.