Launched in 1906 & became a generic term for modern battleships and the name of a class of battleships in the Royal Navy.
HMS Dreadnought (1906) HMS Dreadnought (1906) HMS "Dreadnought" was a Royal Navy battleship that revolutionised naval power. Her name and the type of the entire class of warships that was named after her stems from archaic English in which "dreadnought" means "a fearless person". "Dreadnought"s entry into service in 1906 represented such an advance in naval technology that its name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the "dreadnoughts", as well as the class of ships named after it. Likewise, the generation of ships she made obsolete became known as "pre-dreadnoughts". Admiral Sir John "Jacky" Fisher, First Sea Lord of
Timeline of battleships of the United States Navy Timeline of battleships of the United States Navy This is a bar graph showing a Timeline of battleships of the United States Navy. The ships are listed in order of hull number. In general, labels for ships of a single class are aligned vertically with the topmost ship in a column carrying the class name. In an attempt to show the full timeline of the actual existence of each ship, the final dates on each bar may variously be the date struck, sold, scrapped, scuttled, sunk as a reef, etc., as appropriate to show last time it existed as a