Triumphant-class
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| Triumphant | |
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| Ship role | battleship |
| Affiliation and star navies | People's Republic of Haven |
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The Triumphant-class battleships are a fictional class of space warships in David Weber's Honor Harrington series of novels.
In the Honorverse, the battleship used to be the heaviest capital ship in any navy, until the introduction of the dreadnoughts and superdreadnoughts. No longer considered a "ship of the wall" and thought incapable of withstanding a major naval engagement, most major navies phased out their battleships. Minor navies still used them, but they were no match for a ship of the wall.
The People's Republic of Haven did not retire the battleship type completely. With a massive empire to police and protect, the People's Navy needed a large number of heavy warships to maintain a presence. The battleship was the solution to this need, and by the time of the First Haven-Manticore War, the People's Navy had almost four hundred available battleships to cover the Republic's systems from raiding Manticoran forces.
The Triumphant-class was the latest battleship class in the People's Navy. Even though Havenite commanders knew the battleships were no match for a ship of the wall, the People's Navy tried to use this vast number of relatively heavily-armed warships in several offensive operations, compensating for their weaknesses with numbers. Most of these operations, such as the attack on Yeltsin's Star depicted in Flag in Exile and the Second Battle of Hancock Station (Echoes of Honor), failed miserably when the battleships were forced to fight against more modern classes of warships such as superdreadnoughts or LAC carriers.
