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< | '''HMS Dreadnought (1905)''' was a British [[battleship]] of a radically new fast, "all-big-gun" design, urged by Admiral [[John Arbuthnot Fisher|"Jacky" Fisher]]. By having the speed to pick her engagements, and firepower greater than any other vessel of the time, she triggered a European arms race, since she made obsolete every other battleship, even British ones being built at the same time.<ref name=Massey>{{citation | ||
| title = Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War | |||
| author = Robert K. Massie | |||
| publisher = Ballantine | year = 1991 | isbn = 0-345-37556-4 | |||
}}, pp. 468-473</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 19:56, 17 March 2009
HMS Dreadnought (1905) was a British battleship of a radically new fast, "all-big-gun" design, urged by Admiral "Jacky" Fisher. By having the speed to pick her engagements, and firepower greater than any other vessel of the time, she triggered a European arms race, since she made obsolete every other battleship, even British ones being built at the same time.[1]
References
- ↑ Robert K. Massie (1991), Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War, Ballantine, ISBN 0-345-37556-4, pp. 468-473