Which battleships were probably the tallest

Which battleships were the tallest ever built?

Yamato and Musashi are the tentative choices, based on a mental estimate whose result depends on how height is calculated.

Yamato and Musashi are the tentative choices for the tallest battleships. This is a mental estimate based partly on the number of decks, rather than a checked set of dimensions. It assumes that Japanese deck spacing was broadly comparable with that used elsewhere. The result remains dependent on how height is calculated.