Sea battle printable
Two grids, a fleet and a pencil.
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Example: sea battle in a third-grade class, as practice in reading coordinates
A teacher plays sea battle with her class before starting on graphs. Settings: Game “Sea battle”, Fleet “Five ships (5, 4, 3, 3, 2)”, Per page “Two sheets side by side”, US Letter. sea-battle.pdf is one landscape page with two player sheets to cut apart, so 12 copies serve 24 students.
- Each sheet has “My ships”, tinted blue, above “My shots”, both lettered A to J across and numbered 1 to 10 down.
- Each player draws the five ships on My ships, straight across or down. A call such as “D7” means column D, row 7: the letter first, as x comes before y.
- Hits get an X on My shots and misses a dot; tick the box beside a ship once it is sunk.
| Ship | Squares | Placed, for example |
|---|---|---|
| Aircraft carrier | 5 | B2 to F2, across |
| Battleship | 4 | H3 to H6, down |
| Cruiser | 3 | A8 to C8 |
| Submarine | 3 | J7 to J9 |
| Destroyer | 2 | E10 and F10 |
The five ships fill 17 of the 100 squares, so nobody can win in fewer than 17 shots. The classic fleet of ten fills 30 squares, for a longer game; either way, calling and marking squares is the same skill as plotting points on a graph.
How it works
- Choose the fleet: five ships, or the classic ten.
- Print one sheet per player, or two side by side to cut apart.
- Each player draws their ships on the shaded grid, where the other cannot see.
- Take turns calling squares like B7 and mark hits and misses on the lower grid.
- For two players at separate desks, choose Battleship and one full page per player. Download both sheets together or select just Player 2.
Frequently asked questions
- How are the ships placed?
- Straight across or down, never diagonally, and in most rules not touching each other. The fleet list beside the grids shows each ship’s length.
- Which ships are in each fleet?
- Five ships: aircraft carrier 5 squares, battleship 4, cruiser 3, submarine 3 and destroyer 2, 17 squares in all. The classic ten: one battleship of 5, two cruisers of 4, three destroyers of 3 and four submarines of 2, 30 squares.
- One sheet per page or two?
- “One player’s sheet” gives each player a whole portrait page with bigger squares. “Two sheets side by side” puts both players on one landscape page, to cut down the middle, which halves the paper.
- Can I use it in class?
- Yes — calling squares like C4 is practice in reading coordinates, which is why teachers use it before graphs.
- Are there other games?
- Noughts and crosses, dots and boxes and hangman have pages of their own.
- Is anything uploaded?
- No. The sheet is made in your browser. On the free plan a small line with our name is printed at the foot of the last page.