The genesis of the Dreadnought ... the enemy battleship was essentially unable to do the same. In terms of the arms race between Germany and the British Empire, defined the pre-World War I ...

It could have (and eventually did) operated at the head of a squadron of pre-dreadnoughts without difficulty or embarrassment. Dreadnought, on the other hand, rendered the previous battleships of ...

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broadside guns on pre-Dreadnought battleships; weapons that proved largely ineffective at the longer ranges that prevailed when the Great War came.

HMS Canopus was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy missed the Battle of Coronel, but fired the first shots of the Battle of the Falklands Last December, in a spirit of remembrance and ...

Yet, the building of "dreadnought" battleships reveals much about the changes wrought by technology; greater firepower, conversion from coal to oil, introduction of turbine engines, and even the ...