With which kind of engine battleships of WW2 were powered?

WWII battleships used oil burning steam turbines(Rankine cycle). The same types of engines that power most large naval vessels today. read more

One ongoing fact about all the Maybach engines used in Nazi armored vehicles was, just like American tank engines, is that they ran solely on gasoline - engines like what’s in our cars for the type of fuel used simply can’t get any sort of “fuel economy”, or have the low-speed torque, of a diesel engine, used heavily by the Soviets in their tank designs in World War II. read more

They were powered by one of two types of engine: a vertical steam piston-driven engine, or a steam turbine engine. Steam turbines were the norm for ship propulsion systems until roughly the 1960s, when gas turbines took precedence. read more