Dreadnought
The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy’s Dreadnought, had such an impact when launched in 1906 that similar battleships built after her were referred to as \”dreadnoughts,\” and earlier battleships became known as pre-dread noughts. Her design had two revolutionary features: an all-big-gun armament scheme, with...