With the development of underwater mines and torpedoes, defeating a battleship no longer required another battleship. That meant smaller, cheaper navies were suddenly much more dangerous. So the huge battleships were generally held in reserve and used more as a psychological threat than a practical one. No dreadnoughts were lost to enemy guns during the war, though the HMS Audacious was sunk by a mine off the coast of Scotland, and the HMS Vanguard was destroyed by a magazine explosion.
Dreadnoughts "were good at inculcating fear and uncertainty in opponents," says Ross, "in the same way that a ballistic missile submarine does today. In some ways, naval warfare in World War I was like a giant chess game: lots of skirmishes, but because the big pieces were too valuable to risk losing, they stayed behind in relative safety. A few of the leftover dreadnoughts played a role in later conflicts, after being converted into early aircraft carriers.
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Reporter Twitter. Topics video games. Described as a deadly fighting machine, it transformed the whole idea of warfare and sparked a dangerous arms race. On 10 February the world's media gathered in Portsmouth to watch King Edward VII launch what he and his ministers knew would be a world-beating piece of British technology.
It was both an entrancing piece of high technology and a weapon of previously unimagined destructive power. At the time, Britain was a nation obsessed with the Navy.
The Navy was at the centre of national life - politically powerful and a major cultural force as well, with images of the jolly sailor Jack Tar used to sell everything from cigarettes to postcards. The th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar just months earlier had served to remind anyone who doubted it of the Royal Navy's power, size and wild popularity.
So if the British public had come to expect their Navy to be world-beaters, they were delighted with Dreadnought, and eager to hear all about her. There was plenty to hear, for Dreadnought, says John Roberts of the Museum of Naval Firepower, "really transformed naval warfare rather like the tank did on land warfare. In fact Dreadnought was described at the time as 'the most deadly fighting machine ever launched in the history of the world'".
Dreadnought brought together for the first time a series of technologies which had been developing over several years. Most important was her firepower. She was the first all big-gun battleship - with ten inch guns. Each gun fired half-ton shells over 4ft tall and packed with high explosive. They weighed as much as a small car. Standing next to one today, it is easy to see how a single broadside could destroy an opponent - and do so at 10 miles' distance.
These great distances caused problems of their own - in controlling and directing the fire - and Dreadnought was one of the first ships fitted with new equipment to electrically transmit information to the gun turrets. For potential enemies on the receiving end this was a terrifying prospect.
Decades later , the ship was reactivated in a ploy to get more power for the Imperial Remnant , but was ultimately destroyed by the New Republic. It was created from the hull design of an Eclipse -class dreadnought prototype. In Naval terminology, dreadnought is generally synonymous with battleships constructed after and influenced by HMS Dreadnought. Inside the Worlds also stated that "Super Star Destroyer" was used in "Rebel slang", while Starship Battles Preview 1 explained that the term was invented and popularized by Imperial personnel.
The term "Star Dreadnought" or "Star Dreadnaught" is disliked by some fans who prefer the term "Super Star Destroyer", which already referred to many different ships. Since the Expanded Universe renaissance introduced by West End Games had sources specifically divide warships into different types depending on their size and power, some fans welcomed what they saw as a necessary additions to explain all the differently sized Super Star Destroyers seen throughout decades of publishing.
Others considered the various redesignations and redefinitions contradictory and unnecessary, accepting the use of Super Star Destroyer as a general category.
Despite different naval nomenclature being used by various authors, Curtis Saxton was widely seen as responsible for the change in designations. Much of the criticism towards the term "Star Dreadnought" stem from the belief that it's applying terminology to ship names that were not originally created to fit with the English naval hierarchy and that only recent authors like Saxton have used it in such a fashion. As well, the term Star Dreadnought was initially seen as largely redundant with the pre-existing term Super Star Destroyer, as at the time the term Star Dreadnought was first used, Super Star Destroyers categorized as Star Cruisers and Star Battlecruisers have neither been introduced nor were they specifically identified, leaving Star Dreadnoughts the only category within Super Star Destroyer with any ships in it.
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