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Meanings of dreadnought battleship in English

Russian
дредноут
Portuguese
dreadnought
Spanish
acorazado dreadnought
Catalan
dreadnought
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Type of battleship with a primary battery of large, uniform-caliber guns, to distinguish them from earlier mixed caliber battleships.

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дредноут
Usage of dreadnought battleship in English
1
They were the Dreadnought battleships of their own time and place and people.
Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
2
At the time, the backbone of the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet consisted of dozens of dreadnought battleships.
Wired
3
For three hours and a half Jellicoe, with his twenty-four dreadnought battleships, had been racing south to reach the scene of action.
Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
4
It had a ram-shaped bow like a Dreadnought battleship and, adjoining it, there were smaller outcrops of rock on the seaward ice-cliffs.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
5
Its history is rich, with 216 known shipwrecks, including that of a 1906 Dreadnought battleship, surrounding its shores.
Rock and Ice Magazine
Translations for dreadnought battleship
Portuguese
dreadnought