Ironically for a vessel designed to engage enemy battleships, her only significant action was the ramming and sinking of German submarine SM U-29, becoming the only battleship confirmed to have sunk a submarine. Her launch helped spark a naval arms race as navies around the world, particularly the German Imperial Navy, rushed to match it in the build-up to World War I. She was also the first capital ship to be powered by steam turbines, making her the fastest battleship in the world at the time of her completion. He convened a "Committee on Designs" to evaluate the alternative designs and to assist in the detailed design work.ĭreadnought was the first battleship of her era to have a uniform main battery, rather than having a few large guns complemented by a heavy secondary armament of smaller guns. Shortly after he assumed office, he ordered design studies for a battleship armed solely with 12-inch (305 mm) guns and a speed of 21 knots (39 km/h 24 mph). Admiral Sir John "Jacky" Fisher, First Sea Lord of the Board of Admiralty, is credited as the father of Dreadnought. Likewise, the generation of ships she made obsolete became known as "pre-dreadnoughts". Dreadnought's entry into service in 1906 represented such an advance in naval technology that its name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the "dreadnoughts", as well as the class of ships named after it.
Her name and the type of the entire class of warships that was named after her stems from archaic English in which "dreadnought" means "a fearless person". HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy battleship that revolutionised naval power.
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