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| + | '''HMS ''Dreadnought''''' was a British battleship early in the 20th Century. The first warship to mount a main battery of single-caliber big guns and the first to be powered by turbine engines, ''Dreadnought'' was so revolutionary that she rendered current navies obsolete, sparked an arms race between Great Britain and Germany, caused other nations to invest heavily in all big-gun capitol ships, and gave her very name to the first generation of battleships to follow afterwards. | ||
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| HMS Dreadnought | |
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| Career | |
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| Owner | Royal Navy, United Kingdom |
| Shipyard | His Majesty's Dockyard Portsmouth, England |
| Type | Battleship |
| Authorized | 1905 |
| Keel laid | 2 October 1905 |
| Launched | 10 February 1906 |
| Commissioned | 2 December 1906 |
| Status | Sold for scrapping, 9 May 1921 |
| Characteristics | |
| Displacement | 18,420 tons |
| Length | 527 feet |
| Beam | 82 feet |
| Draft | 26 feet |
| Speed | 21 knots |
| Armament | Ten 12-inch main guns twenty-seven 5-inch guns five 18-inch torpedo tubes |
| Crew | 770 officers and men |
HMS Dreadnought was a British battleship early in the 20th Century. The first warship to mount a main battery of single-caliber big guns and the first to be powered by turbine engines, Dreadnought was so revolutionary that she rendered current navies obsolete, sparked an arms race between Great Britain and Germany, caused other nations to invest heavily in all big-gun capitol ships, and gave her very name to the first generation of battleships to follow afterwards.