Super Dreadnought:
Ultra Dreadnought:
Super Dreadnought:
Ultra Dreadnought:
Outstanding graphics! If you’re trying to get on the teacher’s good side, it’s working! (Although direct wire transfers to my account work a little bit better...)
Been onboard the BB Texas many times: It started me on my love of engineering and big steam things. (Well, it is impressive for a 7-year old to look at a steam engine, see the top of the open piston and realize “I could stand in that thing and ride up and down all day ...” )
It is an ironic - or iconic? - reflection of the 1890’s - 1912’s dreadnought Navy buildup before WWI that the British were far ahead of all the world’s Navies measured by the 1880-1890-1900 type less-than-dreadnought big ships.
Then they “invented” the Dreadnought - all big gun, very highly armored, very large, long-range fast (for its time) single ship. So, all at once, all of the world’s “old” ships were suddenly obsolete.
including all of the existing big British ships!
OOpsie.
Now, in just one year, all the Germans had to do was launch three dreadnoughts (instead of 20 or 30 big older ships) and the Germans would have caught up with the British and passed them. So, because of the fundamental and massive improvements in the Dreadnought-style battleship, the British made it suddenly possible for the Germans to “win” the very naval buildup they had previously been far, far behind in, and the naval arms race to WWI was accelerated!