Dreadnought: The Battleship that Changed Everything

By the early 20th century, the Royal Navy was the world's most powerful maritime force securing the interests of the British Empire from China to the West Indies and everywhere in between. It was also increasingly vulnerable and great powers around the world They increased their naval strength to such a point. where they could challenge the long invincible British Navy, chief among them was the new German Empire, which began an aggressive

battleship

building program from 1899 determined not to lose its primary position at sea, the Royal Navy increased his own production and went on to design a radically new type of

battleship

that would have greater firepower and speed than any other battleship currently afloat.

In December 1906, this new ship was commissioned, representing such a technological leap for Ford that it made all other battleships immediately obsolete and sparked its limitless naval arms race between the Kaiser and the King. The name of the new ship was HMS.

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in the late 19th century, the British were primarily concerned about the fleets of France and Russia which, if combined, could have the strength to overwhelm the larger Royal Navy to counter this threat in 1889, the British Parliament. passed the Naval Defense Act which introduced a legal requirement for the Royal Navy to maintain a fleet equal to that of the next two largest navies combined to meet this objective, the Navy increased its shipbuilding and commissioned seven new classes of battleships alone between 1890 and 1900 in In 1897, Britain had 62 armored ships over 5,000 tons in service, compared to 36 for France and 18 for Russia.

This balance of power met the power standard, but was about to be upset by the fourth-ranked German Navy and its new captain, secretary of state. Alfred Tirpitz Tirpitz had a vision for the Imperial German Navy that went far beyond the 12 armored ships it possessed in 1897. He wanted a large fleet of powerful German battleships enough to challenge Britain for control of the North Sea almost as soon as As he was in in June 1897 he wrote a memorandum setting out his views for Germany the most dangerous naval enemy at present is England the military situation against England requires battleships in the greatest possible number Tirpitz proposed a fleet of 19 battleships and his plans were accepted by the Reichstag on 26 March 1898, a fleet of this strength would not be enough to cause serious headaches for the British, but that

changed

after an incident during the Boer War in which Britain found itself involved at the turn of the century in January 1903.

The British stopped steamers off the east coast of Africa suspected of smuggling weapons to the poor. No weapons were found and the three ships were eventually freed, but it was the kind of outrage that Tirpitz took advantage of, according to Robert Massey, the German officer seizing the moment to declare that only a powerful fleet could prevent such national humiliation the response must be double the construction program of 1898 a second naval law was passed in June of that same year increasing the strength of the future German battle fleet 238 battleships a force that would make Germany the second naval power in the world in 1905.

Germany had fifteen new Reich and Deutschland class battleships from Wittelsbach Braun in service or under construction in a direct challenge to British supremacy at sea; In London, the Admiralty acted quickly to respond to its new threat by commissioning the first of eight new King's seventh class battleships in 1905, during the same year the new professional chief of the Navy began a process of large-scale reform. The first Lord Admiral Jackie Fisher throughout his naval career Jackie Fisher had been at the forefront of innovation, convinced that the raw Navy had to grasp new technologies and approaches with both hands or risk being overtaken by other powers , on his appointment as First Sea Lord in October 1904 found a fleet that focused its main force on the Mediterranean as a pointed weapon. against the French, in addition to establishing bases for moderately strong fleets spread around the world in response to the new German threat and the improvement of relations between Great Britain and France.

Fischer shifted emphasis to the North Sea, withdrew the Navy's best raw battleships from around the world and focused them at home as a weapon aimed squarely at Germany, embarked on a ruthless cull of the Navy's ranks: scrapping 90 obsolete ships that, in his words, were too weak to fight and too slow to escape, and placed 64 more in reserve, Jackie Fisher's Navy. Was to be a leaner, more powerful machine with fewer, more powerful ships, the encapsulation of this approach was the design of a radically new generation of battleship that, when completed, would be such a giant leap that all that followed would take its name. in December 1904.

Admiral Jackie Fisher opened the first meeting of a committee to design a new generation of British battleships and charged them to design their ship with a high top speed and uniform armament with as many large 12-inch guns as possible, unlike previous battleships that could have four. 12-inch guns in a variety of smaller calibers designed for medium and short range Fisher wanted a ship that was designed to herd the maximum amount of seed at the enemy from the maximum range possible. This was a game-changing doctrine for Royal Navy battleships for a long time, and it is even thought that modern fleets would fight at point-blank range, just as in Nelson's time.

Construction of this new experimental ship began in October 1905 and progressed at a dizzying pace. Admiral Fisher demanded that the battleship be delivered in just 12 months as a very public declaration of Britain's shipbuilding superiority, this was much faster than the previous construction record at Portsmouth of 31 months on 3 October 1906. , a year and a day after laying her keel, the battleship left Portsmouth for sea trials; Two months later, he was commissioned and the competition was completely irrelevant, while the new German battleship, the Deutschland, had 411-inch guns, his battleship mounted 12-inch guns, ten of them state-of-the-art steam turbines and Her engines allowed her to reach 21 knots substantially faster than the 18 and a half knots managed by the Deutschland of Of course, the Deutschland had a large number of smaller caliber guns (14 6-inch guns and 22 3-inch guns), but These would be useless against a ship that had much more long-range firepower and the speed to safely stay out of range of the smaller calibers, simply The battleship made all other battleships in the world obsolete as soon as it was laid down. into service in 1906, the battleships would be divided into battleships and pre-

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s according to Massey, when confirmation of Desai's speed and the battleship's armament reached Berlin, something close to panic ensued, ironically, although by rendering all the battleships obsolete.

Battleships preceding the battleship, the biggest loser was Britain, the Navy's existing advantage was effectively eliminated by the battleship and it was not long before its rivals produced their own interpretation of the design in 1908, the German Navy commissioned its first battleship red nor Nassau, which mounted 12 11-inch guns and could reach 19 knots, was the starting signal for a full-fledged naval arms race in which control of the North Sea was at stake, deepening its industrial capabilities. Germany delivered three more Nassau-class battleships in May 1910 and six more Heligoland and Kaiser-class battleships in late 1912. In response, Britain increased its own production and ordered six additional Bella fir'aun and Bella-class battleships.

Vincent and Colossus in May 1910 and during 1912 were put into service for the Orion class armed super battleships. with larger thirteen and a half inch guns to reinforce Britain's determination to maintain its superiority over the Kaiser League marina in March 1912, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill announced that the power standard had been abandoned to Please just keep 60% more battleship. that Germany, when Germany ordered a new battleship in the 1912-13 program, the last of the Kearney class, Britain ordered five more, all of the new Queen Elizabeth class, which did not have an even more powerful armament of 15-pounders. inches.

This trend was repeated the following year, with the five Royal Sovereign-class battleships ordered against two German battleships byun and bharden by the tire of the Battle of Jutland in 1916, the Pretender built 30 battleships, 11 more than the Germans, was a comprehensive industrial victory and, indeed, by the At the beginning of the First World War, Germany was already opting for the construction of submarines instead of battleships. Overall, Misnomer entered World War I with her naval supremacy intact, fielding in 1914 72 battleships, 10 battlecruisers, one hundred and thirty-six cruisers, and 80 submarines. The main rival, Germany, was able to muster 35 battleships, 6 battlecruisers, 25 cruisers and 40 submarines.

This clear superiority allowed the British to maintain a blockade throughout the Great War, strangling Germany until eventual surrender. Only once in Jutland did the High Seas Fleet seriously attempt to break up this parade. an engagement in which the British lost more ships and more men, but emerged essentially victorious due to the ability to absorb losses provided by possession of such a huge fleet. Jutland was also the pinnacle of the battleship concept with two huge battle lines fighting thousands of meters apart firing. some of the larger caliber shells then floating on the battleships of all nations would follow the big-gun format for the next half century, and the seal battleships themselves became virtually obsolete with the advent of the aircraft carrier.

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