Dec 31, 2005 00:50
What is a Dreadnaut?
If an astronaut is a "star traveler", then a dreadnaut is someone that travels dread; could the dreadnaut be a surivivor of hell, of the final reckoning?...a survivor of war? a soldier at war?...Dreadnauts...
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Specifically, the HMS Dreadnaught was a huge battleship with several rotating turrets with big guns. It was the definitive iron battleship, making the USS Monitor look like it wasn't trying. It had turret mounted cannon fore and aft.
For fifty years or more the battleship continued in this vein, getting better by getting bigger and having bigger guns. They were considered the ultimate warship, and technically they were, until naval warfare gained a third dimension.
The end of the battleship's dominance of the seas came abruptly in the Pacific Ocean in December 1942, not only with the attack on Pearl Harbour, where carrier-based aircraft wiped out all the battleships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, but with the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and an accompanying cruiser within a few hours of the attack.
The last battleship to serve in any navy anywhere was the USS Missouri. Built during WWII as a bigger and tougher battleship than the Pearl Harbour scrap iron it replaced, it served the U.S. Navy ( ... )
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