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HMS Dreadnought Courtesy of the National Archives, Washington, D.C.The Dreadnought displaced 18,000 tons (more than 20,000 tons full load), was 526 feet (160 m) long, and carried a crew of about 800. Its four propeller shafts, powered by steam turbines instead of the traditional steam pistons, gave it an unprecedented top speed of 21 knots. Because recent improvements in naval gunnery had made it unnecessary to prepare for short-range battle, Dreadnought carried no guns of secondary. Instead, it mounted a single-calibre main armament of 10 12-inch guns in five twin turrets.
In addition, 24 3-inch quick-firing guns, 5 Maxim machine guns, and 4 tubes were added for fighting off destroyers and torpedo boats.The Dreadnought immediately made all preceding battleships obsolete, but by it was obsolescent itself, having been outclassed by faster “superdreadnoughts” carrying bigger guns. The Dreadnought’s only notable engagement of the war was the ramming and sinking of a German near the Pentland Firth, Scotland, in March 1915. Placed in reserve in 1919, the was sold for scrap the following year and broken up in 1923.
A British battleship that inaugurated this class of warships.The design of the Dreadnought reflected the experiences of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, in which the inadequacies of the armorclads were revealed. Built in Portsmouth in 1905-06, the Dreadnought had a displacement of 17,900 tons and a speed of 21 knots (39 km/hr). Its armament consisted of ten 305-mm guns mounted on five two-gun towers; 24 76-mm guns mounted on the sides (on large-diameter towers) and on the bow and the stern; and five underwater torpedo tubes, four in the sides and one in the stern. Its armor was 280 mm thick at the center, 203 mm at the bow and the stern, 44-70 mm on the deck, and 280 mm around the towers and the deck cabins. The main difference between the Dreadnought and its predecessors, the armorclads, were the unified calibers of all the main and antimine artillery, greater speed, and antimine defense; a rhombic arrangement of the artillery towers made it possible to fire from the sides and stern from eight and from the bow from six guns of the main caliber. The Russian equivalent of the Dreadnought was the improved battleships of the Sevastopol’ type.Want to thank TFD for its existence?, add a link to this page, or visit.Link to this page: dreadnought.
The dreadnought is a type of acoustic guitar body developed by guitar manufacturer C.F. Martin & Company. At the time of its creation in 1916 the word dreadnought referred to a large, all big-gun, modern battleship of the type pioneered by HMS Dreadnought in 1906. On any other large gun-armed opponent, while a dreadnought was a gun-armed. The definition of a capitol ship came from William S. Lind is the following.
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