It referred to the battleships of the early 1900's. These massive war machines were pretty much invincible and "feared nothing," in otherwords, they were in 'dread of nought.' They were armed with large-caliber guns in turrets. The name alludes to HMS Dreadnought, a ship launched by Britain in 1906.
A dreadnought was a British name for an large ironclad, steam-powered warship with a lot of big guns on it. Later the term was changed to battleship.
A dreadnought is type of battleship, built after 1906, that utilized an "all-big-gun" arrangement. Dreadnoughts usually only had eight or more, 12 inch guns, where pre-Dreadnought battleships usually only carried four 12 inc guns, and an assortment of smaller guns.
One good example of this new type of battle ship was the HMS Tiger.
Just as during more recent periods of history, there was a fierce international arms race that took place in the 1890â??s, Dreadnoughts were big gun warships that sprung up in Europe and all the major countries were struggling to build them. World War I officially ended the military Dreadnought race.
It was the name given to a type of battleship built in the arms race leading up to WW1, so called because it "dreaded naught" - or feared nothing.
The worlds most powerful navy was the British Royal Navy. The Kaiser built a huge modern fleet to rival the RN. This was an arms race. Dreadnought was a class of battleship.
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It was the name given to a type of battleship built in the arms race leading up to WW1, so called because it "dreaded naught" - or feared nothing.
Workers' Dreadnought ended in 1924.
Workers' Dreadnought was created in 1914.
Dreadnought - comics - was created in 1967.
Dreadnought - book - has 1007 pages.
Dreadnought - naval wargame - was created in 1975.
Dreadnought with a missile launcher and lascannon is 145 points.
First there was repeating rifles, like the Lee Enfield and the Mauser. A breakthrough would be the Maxim Machine Gun. Airplanes were not used yet. Instead they used Airships and blimps to bomb cities, at the German's did in WW1. The navies used pre-dreadnought and dreadnought battleships as well as destroyers and battlecruisers.
The ISBN of Dreadnought - book - is 0-394-52833-6.
You can get a Dreadnought at most model retailers and Games Workshop Hobby Stores. There isn't a seperate model that is known as a Blood Angels Dreadnought, but a regular Dreadnought painted to the Blood Angels Colour Scheme will qualify to the Blood Angels Codex.
The worlds most powerful navy was the British Royal Navy. The Kaiser built a huge modern fleet to rival the RN. This was an arms race. Dreadnought was a class of battleship.
"Dreadnought" by April Daniels was published on January 24, 2017. It is a science fiction novel that centers around a transgender superhero.