Type of battleship with a primary battery of large, uniform-caliber guns, to distinguish them from earlier mixed caliber battleships.
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They were the Dreadnought battleships of their own time and place and people.
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At the time, the backbone of the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet consisted of dozens of dreadnought battleships.
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For three hours and a half Jellicoe, with his twenty-four dreadnought battleships, had been racing south to reach the scene of action.
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It had a ram-shaped bow like a Dreadnought battleship and, adjoining it, there were smaller outcrops of rock on the seaward ice-cliffs.
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Its history is rich, with 216 known shipwrecks, including that of a 1906 Dreadnought battleship, surrounding its shores.