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A heavily illustrated account of the evolution, design and deployment of dreadnought battleships.
When HMS Dreadnought was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1906 this revolutionary new class of big-gun iron-clad warship immediately changed the face of naval warfare, rendering all other battleships worldwide obsolete. The Admiralty realised that as soon as the ship was revealed to the global naval community Britain would be a in race to stay ahead, and so the first dreadnoughts were built in record time. While there were those who regarded the vessel as a triumphant revolution in naval design, the dreadnought initially had its critics, including those who thought its slower, heavier guns left it vulnerable to the secondary armament of other warships. Nevertheless, other countries, notably Germany, and the United States soon began to lay down dreadnoughts. The culmination of this arms race would be the confrontation of the British and German fleets at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 the greatest clash of naval firepower in history. This book gives detailed insights into the design, operation and combat history of these incredible vessels.

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DREADNOUGHTS AND SUPER-DREADNOUGHTS - photo 1

DREADNOUGHTS AND SUPER-DREADNOUGHTS DREA - photo 2
DREADNOUGHTS AND SUPER-DREADNOUGHTS DREADNOUGHTS AND SUPER-DREADNOUGHTS - photo 3
DREADNOUGHTS AND
SUPER-DREADNOUGHTS
DREADNOUGHTS AND SUPER-DREADNOUGHTS CHRIS M C NAB Photo credits e images - photo 4
DREADNOUGHTS AND SUPER-DREADNOUGHTS CHRIS M C NAB Photo credits e images - photo 5
DREADNOUGHTS
AND
SUPER-DREADNOUGHTS
CHRIS M
C
NAB
Photo credits e images in this work are taken from both the authors own - photo 6
Photo credits: e images in this work are taken from both the authors own collection and a
range of public domain, copyright-free, and Creative Commons sources, including Nick-D,
Nick Dowling, Tony Hisgett, George Grantham Bain Collection, Daniel Schwen, Adam
Cuerden, Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
U.S. Navy, Shutterstock (Everett Collection/Shutterstock.com), National Museum of the
U.S. Navy, Servio de Divulgao da Marinha do Brasil, State Library of Victoria, Science
Museum Group, Kure Maritime Museum, Jef Maytom, and Nigel Aspdin. anks also go
to the National Maritime Museum.
Facing Title Page: A eet of submarines passing H.M.S. Dreadnought, a painting by
Charles Edward Dixon in 1909. The ship is in full regaliafor a decade
Dreadnought
served as a powerful ambassador for British interests around the globe.
Title Page: The forward BL 13.5in Mk V guns of HMS
Ajax
, their muzzles plugged with
tampions to prevent damage to the bores from sea water.
Contents Page: A head-on view of the dreadnought USS
Texas
(BB-35), showing No. 1
and No. 2 turrets (No. 1 is the lower of the superring pair) with the bridge, foremast,
and main battery control towering up behind them. (Adam Cuerden); An excellent
photograph from the pre-dreadnought
Agamemnon
shows a 12-pounder gun in an anti-
aircraft attitude, framed by a rangender operator to the left and a searchlight crew to
the right.
CISS0009
Published in the United States of America and Great Britain in 2021 by
CASEMATE PUBLISHERS
1950 Lawrence Road, Havertown, PA 19083, USA
and
e Old Music Hall, 106108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JE, UK
Text by Chris McNab, copyright 2021 Casemate Publishers
Hardback Edition: ISBN 978-1-63624-086-2
Digital Edition: ISBN 978-1-63624-087-9
A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage
and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher in writing.
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Contents Timeline of Events - photo 7
Contents
Timeline of Events
.............................................
Introduction
.......................................................
e Dreadnought Revolution
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Dreadnought Design and
Engineering
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Firepower
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e Life of the Crew
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International Dreadnoughts and
Super-Dreadnoughts
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e Dreadnoughts at War
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Conclusion
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Further Reading
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Timeline of Events e evolution of the dreadnoughts and the super-dreadnoughts - photo 8
Timeline of Events
e evolution of the dreadnoughts and the super-dreadnoughts began with the launch
of HMS
Dreadnought
in 1906. e naval arms race that it triggered, however, would run
for more than a decade, as the worlds navies raced to develop warships of similar, if not
greater, capabilities. Yet in hindsight, the race was actually relatively short-lived, as the
dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts were largely obsolete by the middle of the 1920s,
although many of the ships were modernized for service in World War II.
1908:
The rst American
dreadnought, USS
South
Carolina
(BB-26), is
launched on July 11.
1909:
Italy lays
down its rst
dreadnought, the
Dante Alighieri
.
1908:
Russia
begins its
dreadnought
building program.
1910:
Construction begins
on the rst true French
dreadnoughts and Argentina
lays down the
Rivadavia
class.
1911:
Turkey orders two
British-built dreadnoughts,
the
Readiye
and the
Sultan Osman I
, neither of
which is delivered.
August 28, 1914:
The
battle of Heligoland
Bight; the German Navy
loses three light cruisers
and a torpedo boat.
September 20,
1914:
U-boat
U-9
sinks three
obsolete Royal
Navy cruisers.
November 1, 1914:
Action
off Coronel, Chile; the
British lose two armored
cruisers to the
Scharnhorst
and
Gneisenau
.
February
10, 1906:
Dreadnought
is launched.
1907:
Germany and Japan begin
building their rst dreadnoughts,
and Brazil orders two
dreadnought-class battleships.
October 2, 1905:
HMS
Dreadnought
s
keel is laid down in
Portsmouth Dockyard.
December 11, 1906:
Dreadnought
is
commissioned into
the British eet.
The USS
Arizona
, here seen under way in the
1920s, belonged to the
Pennsylvania
class of super-
dreadnought battleships. True to the type, it was
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