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- n. A late 19th century or early 20th century battleship with fewer big guns than lesser guns. It was made largely obsolete in 1906 by the dreadnought type of battleship.
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“It appears that the director made use of actual WW2 era (American?) destroyers and added some smoke stacks and flying bridges to them – to simulate Japanese pre-dreadnought ships.”
“I love the pre-dreadnought era of naval history, with its giant flaring brass ventilator shafts, underpowered guns, white paint and coal funnels.”
“Several gyroscopes were tried about 1914-15, and in March 1916 one was ordered for the pre-dreadnought Ohio, to be fitted at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.”
“A second fleet, consisting largely of pre-dreadnought types, guarded the Channel.”
“British pre-dreadnought Goliath, 500 men being lost; allied fleet bombards the forts at Kilid Bahr, Chanak Kalessi, and Nagara; Italian steamer Astrea sinks near Taranto, it being believed that she hit a mine.”
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915
“It included seventeen modern dreadnoughts, five battlecruisers, twenty-five cruisers and twenty pre-dreadnought battleships as well as over forty submarines.”
“/At the end of August 1939 the German pre-dreadnought battleship”
“Thanks to the “pre-dred” Yahoogroup, I’ve discovered a paper model of the HMVS Cerberus, a pre-dreadnought ship christened by the pre-federation Australian state of Victoria.”
HMVS Cerberus, for *free* on the Paper Shipwright « Third Point of Singularity
“having once stolen it for a bit I did on a naval-history oriented board, a little alt-hist thing in which Greeks and Romans had pre-dreadnought battleships.”
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