Dreadnought - Wikipedia The term dreadnought gradually dropped from use after World War I, especially after the Washington Naval Treaty, as virtually all remaining battleships shared dreadnought characteristics; it can also be used to describe battlecruisers, the other type of ship resulting from the dreadnought revolution
Dreadnought | Description Facts | Britannica Dreadnought, British battleship launched in 1906 that established the pattern of the turbine-powered, ‘all-big-gun’ warship, a type that dominated the world’s navies for the next 35 years It displaced 18,000 tons, was 526 feet long, and carried a crew of about 800
dreadnought - Wiktionary, the free dictionary dreadnought (plural dreadnoughts) (military, nautical, historical) A battleship, especially of the World War I era, in which most of the firepower is concentrated in large guns that are of the same caliber
How the Dreadnought sparked the 20th Centurys first arms race Described as a deadly fighting machine, it transformed the whole idea of warfare and sparked a dangerous arms race On 10 February 1906 the world's media gathered in Portsmouth to watch King Edward
dreadnought, n. adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English . . . There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the word dreadnought See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence In early use in sense A 1a (compare quots 1573 and 1587) as the name of a warship in the Royal Navy of Elizabeth I, built in 1573
Dreadnought | Encyclopedia. com dreadnought is the name given to a type of battleship introduced into the principal navies after the experiences of the Russo-Japanese War The chief innovations were higher speed and a main armament of heavy guns of uniform calibre
Rise and Fall of the Dreadnought - HistoryNet Less than one year after Fisher took office, the first innovative British battleship, Dreadnought, was laid down at Portsmouth Thanks to Fisher’s determined efforts, the ship was launched only 100 days later She was commissioned in 1906 and immediately became the paragon for early 20th-century battleships and the most feared naval weapon at sea