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Bookmark or Share- Dreadnought Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster1. : a warm garment of thick cloth. also : the cloth. 2. [Dreadnought, British battleship] a. : battleship. b. : one that is among the largest or most powerful of its kind.
- Dreadnought | Description & Facts | BritannicaDreadnought, 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.
- Rise and Fall of the Dreadnought - HistoryNetIn early 1922, the hulk of the once formidable Austro-Hungarian dreadnought was towed into the Mediterranean Sea and sunk after being used as a floating target ship by the French battleships France and Bretagne. Tegetthoff had an even more prosaic demise.
- The South Carolina Sisters: America's First DreadnoughtsTo a casual observer, the event represented little more than that the conservative U.S. Navy had finally caught up with the British, who had commissioned the "all-big-gun" HMS Dreadnought in 1906. In fact, the two South Carolina-class ships reflected thinking that considerably preceded that of the British ship.
- Dreadnought revolutionized naval warfare - HistoryNetDreadnought revolutionized naval warfare. On October 18, 1906, every battleship in the world, save one, became irrelevant. On that day, the waters of the English Channel churned under a frightful salvo fired from the eight 12-inch guns of a new British warship, HMS Dreadnought. Naval experts had predicted the recoil from this barrage would ...
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