dreadnought
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It is the only remaining WWI-era dreadnought battleship.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
A recommissioned dreadnought, the New Jersey, with sixteen-inch guns revamped and rumored to be out of dry dock in Philadelphia and headed this way.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
It’s a dreadnought of a World War II-era historical novel, bristling with armaments yet intimate in tone.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2017
In the 18th Century the Royal Navy began sheathing ships in copper - dramatically improving speed - and the dreadnought revolutionised naval warfare in the run up to World War One.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2017
Bethlehem Steel brought giant ingots and great slabs of military armor, including a curved plate seventeen inches thick meant for the gun turret of the dreadnought Indiana.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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World War I
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