Battleship/Legends

Battleship was a formal designation reserved for the largest and strongest warships in a fleet. The largest and most heavily armed battleships were in turn called dreadnoughts. Some dreadnought classes also held an additional designation of Star Dreadnought.

During the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War, several medium-sized classes would also be referred to as "peacekeeping battleships". The Venator-class, Victory-class and Imperial-class Star Destroyers were all serving as both battleships, cruisers and destroyers. The use of multiple categories for the same ship was due to the presence of multiple classification systems like the Imperial standard and others, as well as the overall presence of these classes in many fleet-battles where they were, as a standard, the heaviest.

Known battleship classes

 * Core Galaxy Systems Dreadnought
 * Corellian Engineering Corporation Corellian battleship
 * Corellian Engineering Corporation Strident-class Star Defender
 * Corsair battleship
 * Hoersch-Kessel Drive, Inc. Lucrehulk-class battleship
 * Kiris shipyards Corellian Dreadnaught
 * Kuat Drive Yards Eclipse-class Star Dreadnought
 * Kuat Drive Yards Executor-class Star Dreadnought
 * Kuat Drive Yards Mandator-class Star Dreadnought
 * Kuat Drive Yards Sovereign-class Star Dreadnought
 * Loronar Corporation Loronar battleship
 * Mandal Hypernautics Keldabe-class battleship
 * Mandalorian battleship
 * Mon Calamari Shipyards Home One type MC80 Star Cruiser
 * Mon Calamari Shipyards Viscount-class Star Defender
 * Rendili Stardrive Invincible-class dreadnaught
 * Rendili StarDrive Rendili battleship
 * Republic battleship (New Sith Wars)
 * Republic command ship
 * Republic Sienar Systems Sienar Battleship
 * Rothana Heavy Engineering Rothana battleship
 * Sith Battleship
 * Wooden-hulled battleship
 * Yuuzhan Vong Kor Chokk
 * Yuuzhan Vong Koros-Strohna
 * Yuuzhan Vong Uro-ik v'alh

Known battleships

 * Eye of Palpatine
 * EX-F
 * Giel's battleship

Behind the scenes
In real life, the word "dreadnought" became synonymous with "battleship" after the introduction of the revolutionary "all-big gun" battleship HMS Dreadnought in 1906. Overnight, all battleship classes prior to HMS Dreadnought were made obsolete, and two modern eras in battleship history would later be considered: Classes made before HMS Dreadnought were referred to as "pre-Dreadnoughts" while classes made afterwards, based on its design-principles, were referred to as "Dreadnoughts". However, this was not a fixed nomenclature, and didn't replace the term "battleship". (For instance, the US Navy referred to its largest ships as Battleships: )

The SW galaxy diverges somewhat from this design-course, by having a mix of "battleships" and "dreadnoughts" in the same cultures and eras.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Golden Age of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire
 * Cloak of Deception
 * Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
 * Star Wars: Episode I Jedi Power Battles
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * Outbound Flight
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars Republic 50: The Battle of Kamino
 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Star Wars: Republic Commando
 * Obsession
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Han Solo at Stars' End
 * Marvel Star Wars
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
 * Children of the Jedi
 * X-wing: The Krytos Trap
 * X-wing: The Bacta War
 * X-wing: Iron Fist
 * X-wing: Solo Command
 * X-wing: Isard's Revenge
 * Dark Empire
 * Empire's End
 * Darksaber
 * Crimson Empire
 * Dark Tide II: Ruin
 * Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
 * Vector Prime
 * The Unifying Force
 * Betrayal