Description: Battleships were the largest warships that were ever made. At the start of the twentieth century, battleships were known as pre-dreadnoughts. Such pre-dreadnoughts were eq ...
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Battleships were the largest warships that were ever made. At the start of the twentieth century, battleships were known as pre-dreadnoughts. Such pre-dreadnoughts were equipped with too many naval guns, of too many different calibres - making them too hard to use. That all changed in 1906, when HMS Dreadnought was launched - as being equipped with only two calibres of naval gun (just long range and short range) she revolutionised Naval Conflict. HMS Dreadnought caused such a dramatic change, that this peri
Of all the Royal Navy's Battleships, there are none more 'highly regarded, heavily worked and wartime modified' than those of the Queen Elizabeth class - and of those, is there 'none more renowned' than HMS Queen Elizabeth herself:
HMS Queen Elizabeth and her four sister battleships (Barham, Malaya, Valiant and Warspite) had all been laid down (for construction) in 1912/1913. Being completed in 1915/1916 they were soon 'put to use' within World War One - with HMS Queen Elizabeth 'shelling land forts' in the Dardanelles, and her sisters 'taking heavy fire' at the Battle of Jutland. In terms of Naval Architecture, there is 'an important milestone' which is usually accredited to them: they are seen as, the World's first true, fast battle