HMS Dreadnought (1906)

• Mail Belt: 203-279 mm
• Deck: 19-76 mm
• Main artillery: 76-279 mm
• Barbettes: 102-279 mm

The HMS Dreadnought (English for Fear Nothing ) was a battleship of the British Royal Navy. The ship that served in the British Navy from 1906 to 1920, was the first ship of the eponymous novel Dreadnought - type and thus is regarded as the ancestor of all the battleships of the 20th century.

History

The launch took place on 10 February 1906 in the Naval Shipyard Portsmouth. It was put into service on December 3, 1906 and had no sister ships.

The completed in only 427 days ( and in comparison to the previous ships of the line by about 20% more expensive) Dreadnought is considered due to their drive steam turbines and their equipment with only heavier main artillery uniform caliber as the first modern battleship. The associated with their construction devaluation of the older battleships led to a global naval race, the only international treaties ( fleet conferences) was stopped after the First World War.

The Dreadnought was in the years 1907-1909 flagship of the British Home Fleet, and from 1907 to 1911 the flagship of the first division. In 1911 the ship was retrofitted. In 1914 it belonged to the Grand Fleet, but was removed in 1916 because of their technical obsolescence again and the flagship of a squadron of older battleships. Their only military action during the First World War was the sinking of the German submarine SM U-29 under Otto Weddigen by ramming. In February 1919, the ship of the reserve fleet was allocated, set one year later decommissioned. In May 1920, it was then sold for £ 44,000 at a Abwrackfirma, which began in 1923 with the scrapping.

Weaken

A serious drawback of constructive Dreadnought was the arrangement of the main mast with the artillery control room behind the first chimney: At Leeposition the objective of own chimney smoke to obscure the enemy, also occurred in low flow conditions restrict vision on through sooting.

Others

1910, the ship was known by the dreadnought prank, in which Virginia Woolf and other members of the Bloomsbury Group as alleged Abyssinian diplomats disguised the ship visited.

There was in the history of the British navy another eight ships, which also carried the name HMS Dreadnought, including the first British nuclear submarine in 1963.

The guitar shape " Dreadnought " was named after the battleship due to their massive, noisy appearance. Was built the first guitar of this type of Martin Guitars, as guitarists looking for an alternative to the then Dobros and Tricones.