H-44-class Battleship

The Design H-44 Battleship was a proposed German battleship designs first proposed in 1935, originally designed to be armed with 15-inch guns similar to the Bismarck class battleship. However, when the US designed the South Carolina-class battleships armed with 16 inch guns, the Germans redesigned the ship, designated H-39 to carry similar sixteen inch guns. After the start of World War II, Adolf Hitler put a halt on the H-class construction until the end of the war. The design for large vessels, however, continued, culminating design H-44, armed with eight massive 508mm (20 inch) main guns.