which provide a good deal of visual information that historians, modelers, and others can utilize. There are hundreds of pictures, illustrations, diagrams, tables, etc. Just the same, McNab observed HMS Dreadnought set off an international naval race in capital ships, transformed naval tactics, and had an outsized impact on international relations.ĭreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts is part of the Casemate Illustrated Special Series.

A Jarticle in The Times concluded the construction of HMS Dreadnought resulted in more of an evolution, not a revolution in capital ship development. Chris McNab, author of Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts, takes a more nuanced approach in his book about these epoch-setting ships. Capital ships built before 1906 with a mixed or intermediate main armament, were thereafter termed pre-dreadnoughts. Indeed, all-big-gun battleships from 1906 forward were considered dreadnoughts or, subsequently, super-dreadnoughts. Battleship buffs and authorities on capital ships are familiar with the dictum that once HMS Dreadnought was commissioned in 1906, all existing battleships thereby became obsolete.

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