The slower Americans didn’t lay down South Carolina (which would carry eight twelve-inch guns in four twin turrets) until December 1906, about the time that HMS Dreadnought entered service.

The slower Americans didn’t lay down South Carolina (which would carry eight twelve-inch guns in four twin turrets) until December 1906, about the time that HMS Dreadnought entered service.

Just two years later, HMS Dreadnought was launched at Portsmouth on 10 February 1906. It had cost £1,783,883 to build. But what a ship it was.

In 1906, HMS Dreadnought was launched. Described as a deadly fighting machine, it transformed the whole idea of warfare and sparked a dangerous arms race. On 10 February 1906 the world's media ...

In 1906, the Royal Navy rendered all other battleships obsolete when it unveiled the HMS Dreadnought. This past summer, British naval engineers revealed a vision of its successor, the Dreadnought ...