Key Point: Though rapidly surpassed in power, Dreadnought rendered older battleships obsolete and set the standard for modern naval design, leaving a lasting legacy despite its brief reign at the top.

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 ...

HMS Dreadnought, launched 1906, was a powerful heavy-gunned battleship which set the standard for the largest naval battleships before the First World War. Its launch started an arms race with all ...

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 ...