dreadnought

The Dreadnought gave its name to an entirely new class of battleships of the most advanced design. By 1914 the Royal Navy had 22 dreadnoughts (another 13 were completed during World War I), Germany built a total of 19 (five completed after 1914), and the United…

…after the development of the dreadnought, reached their most dangerous point. In fact, Anglo-German relations took a sharp turn for the worse in 1908 and reached a crisis in March 1909, with the great naval scare in Great Britain. In order to get a yearly program of six dreadnoughts against…

…that 18 battleships of the Dreadnought class be built, 6 in each of the years 1909–11, in order to offset the growth of the German fleet. He was opposed in this by David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, and others who wished to build fewer ships and spend more money on…