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- noun A late 19th century or early 20th century
battleship with fewerbig guns than lesser guns. It was made largely obsolete in 1906 by thedreadnought type of battleship.
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I love the pre-dreadnought era of naval history, with its giant flaring brass ventilator shafts, underpowered guns, white paint and coal funnels.
HMVS Cerberus, for *free* on the Paper Shipwright « Third Point of Singularity 2010
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It appears that the director made use of actual WW2 era (American?) destroyers and added some smoke stacks and flying bridges to them – to simulate Japanese pre-dreadnought ships.
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I love the pre-dreadnought era of naval history, with its giant flaring brass ventilator shafts, underpowered guns, white paint and coal funnels.
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I love the pre-dreadnought era of naval history, with its giant flaring brass ventilator shafts, underpowered guns, white paint and coal funnels.
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It appears that the director made use of actual WW2 era (American?) destroyers and added some smoke stacks and flying bridges to them – to simulate Japanese pre-dreadnought ships.
The Battle of the Japan Sea « Third Point of Singularity 2009
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"Several gyroscopes were tried about 1914-15, and in March 1916 one was ordered for the pre-dreadnought Ohio, to be fitted at the Philadelphia Navy Yard."
Page 123 Walter Jon Williams 2006
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A second fleet, consisting largely of pre-dreadnought types, guarded the Channel.
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British pre-dreadnought Goliath, 500 men being lost; allied fleet bombards the forts at Kilid Bahr, Chanak Kalessi, and Nagara; Italian steamer Astrea sinks near Taranto, it being believed that she hit a mine.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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It included seventeen modern dreadnoughts, five battlecruisers, twenty-five cruisers and twenty pre-dreadnought battleships as well as over forty submarines.
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It included seventeen modern dreadnoughts, five battlecruisers, twenty-five cruisers and twenty pre-dreadnought battleships as well as over forty submarines.
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