Dreadnought battleship
Acorazado Dreadnought
- Date
- 1906 · confidence high
- Place
- Portsmouth, England
- Credited to
- Admiral John Fisher (Royal Navy); HMS Dreadnought, launched in 1906
- Field
- Conflict
What it is
Battleship with an all-big-gun main armament of uniform calibre and steam turbines, which made every existing fleet obsolete. It triggered the Anglo-German naval race.
What it led to
- Naval arms race before 1914
- Battle of Jutland and naval blockade
- Washington Treaty (1922) and arms limitation
Built on
Made possible
- Mechanical naval fire-control computer (Dreyer table and Argo clock)1912
- Aircraft carrier1918–1922
- Centralised fire control
- Fast battleship