standing committee. noun. Legal Definition of standing committee. : a permanent committee; especially : one in a house or senate with jurisdiction over legislation in a particular area (as the judiciary or the armed services)
No, just one of the famous battleships as it contained the most US sailors killed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The largest US battlewagons are the Iowa class battleshiâ¦ps. The largest and most powerful battleship ever built was the Yamato (and her only sister the Musashi).
Publisher. A+E Networks. A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cubaâs Havana harbor, killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard. One of the first American battleships, the Maine weighed more than 6,000 tons and was built at a cost of more than $2 million.