Dreadnought
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The dreadnought 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 battles
The Royal Navy's revolutionary HMS Dreadnought, launched in 1906, gave its name to the type.
USS Texas, the only dreadnought still in existence, was launched in 1912 and is now a museum ship.
12-pounder anti-torpedo boat guns mounted on the roof of a turret on Dreadnought (1906)
King George V (left) inspects HMS Neptune
Battleship
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A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large guns, designed to serve as a capital ship. From their advent in the late 1880s, battleships were among the larg
USS Iowa firing a broadside
Napoléon (1850), the world's first steam-powered battleship
Gloire (1859), the first ocean-going ironclad warship
The German Brandenburg, which carried six heavy guns, rather than the standard four