Weapons

Dreadnought

An all-big-gun battleship of the type launched with HMS Dreadnought in 1906, which made earlier battleships obsolete. The race to build them between Britain and Germany poisoned relations before the war.

In the Arsenal

Mentioned in

• Chapter I The Long Fuse Overview§6 The Anglo-German Naval Race
• Chapter V The Year of Attrition §6 Jutland: The Day of the Dreadnoughts
• Chapter XI War on Waves and Wings Overview§1 The Balance of 1914: Dreadnoughts and the Fleet in Being§6 Jutland Dissected: Guns, Powder and Signals§7 The Mediterranean, Black Sea and Baltic

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