Ship Class: HMS Dreadnought

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Ship Class	HMS Dreadnought

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Ship	HMS Dreadnought
Ship Type	Battleship
Battleship Type	First Class
Battleship Generation	Wing Turret
Ship Class Attribute	Innovative

	Summary	Details
	A battleship with a single sized main armament and turbine propulsion.	The first to have direct action gun sights, attached directly to the gun trunnions to eliminate backlash in linkages.

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: Developed By Country	3) 2: Flag	4) 1: First Laid Down	5) 1: Last Disposed
	Great Britain		1905 Oct 01	1923 Jan 01

Ship Classes
	Standard Displacement	Length Overall	Beam	Draught	Complement	Class Complement
	18 110ton	160.6m	25m	8.1m	773	773

Ship Classes
	Shafts	Main Engines	Max Speed	Machinery Type	Boiler Pressure
	4	23 000hp	21kt	Steam Turbine	250psi

Ship Classes
	Bunkerage	Range	Cruising	Cruising Endurance
	2 900ton ##	6 620mile	10kt	23.969day

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: Designed By	3) 1: Improved In Ship Class	4) 3: as Class Improvement	5) 1: Armour	6) 1: Machinery
	Watts Sir Phillip	HMS Bellerophon	N	5 000ton	1 898ton

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: As Built Armament	3) 2:Turret Model	4) 3:Image	5) 2:Torpedo Model	6) 1:Armour Kind	7) 1: As Built Armour	8) 1: Installed With Sensor	9) 8:	10) 9: Control Armament
	Gun 5 X BR 12in 45cal Mk X Twin	BR 12in 45cal Mk X Twin			Krupp Cemented	11in Barbette \| 11in Belt \| 8in Bulkhead \| 4in Deck \| 11in Turret	GBR Predictor Dumaresq		HMS Dreadnought Gun 5 X BR 12in 45cal Mk X Twin
	Gun 27 X BR 3in 40cal 12pdr 12cwt QF PI PI* Single	BR 3in 40cal 12pdr 12cwt QF PI PI* Single					GBR Predictor Vickers Range Clock		HMS Dreadnought Gun 5 X BR 12in 45cal Mk X Twin
	Torpedo 5 X BR 18in RGF Mark VI Fiume Mark III 1906			BR 18in RGF Mark VI Fiume Mark III 1906			GBR Director 9ft Rangefinder By Barr		HMS Dreadnought Gun 5 X BR 12in 45cal Mk X Twin

Ship Classes
	Number In Class	Built By Shipbuilder	Building Cost Per Ship Pound Sterling	Building Cost Per Ship Pounds Sterling Per Ton	Class Building Cost Pound Sterling
	1	Portsmouth Dockyard	1 797 497	97.7	1 797 497

Ship Classes
	Potentially Involved In Tension
	1859 1905 Great Britain Russia 1889 1946 Great Britain Germany 1914 1922 Great Britain Turkey 1917 1941 Great Britain Russia 1922 1944 Great Britain Italy

Documents
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