Dreadnought - Wikipedia The Royal Navy's revolutionary HMS Dreadnought, launched in 1906, gave its name to the type USS Texas, the only dreadnought still in existence, [1] was launched in 1912 and is now a museum ship The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century
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, n. adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English . . . dreadnought typically occurs about 0 2 times per million words in modern written English dreadnought is in frequency band 4, which contains words occurring between 0 1 and 1 times per million words in modern written English
DREADNOUGHT Definition Meaning - Dictionary. com Dreadnought definition: a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type See examples of DREADNOUGHT used in a sentence
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
What does dreadnought mean? - Definitions. net The dreadnought (alternatively spelled dreadnaught) was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought, had such an effect when launched in 1906 that similar battleships built after her were referred to as "dreadnoughts", and earlier battleships became known as pre-dreadnoughts