Dreadnought
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Dreadnought is a generic term for a battleship conforming to the pattern and principles of the seminal H.M.S. Dreadnought. Generally, these principles are taken to be:
- All-Big-Gun: gun outfit reduced in variety to mount largest number of largest available and then a sufficient number of the smallest capable of fending off attack by torpedo boats.
- Speed of 20+ knots: often obtained by adoption of turbine propulsion as opposed to V.T.E. propulsion.
- Increase in armor protection to a belt thickness of at least 11 or 12 inches
The coining of the term "dreadnought" as a generic description of modern battleships immediately relegated battleships conforming to the earlier norm the collective appellation of "Pre-Dreadnought". At the same time as battleships were being "reborn", the Battlecruiser type was being inaugurated by the launch of H.M.S. Invincible.
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