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Pre-dreadnought: This term is a historical reference to battleships built between the mid-1880s and 1905, before the launch of HMS Dreadnought
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  • A late 19th-century or early 20th-century battleship with a small number of big guns (typically no more than four) and a large number of quick-firing medium-caliber guns. It was made largely obsolete in 1906 by the dreadnought type of battleship.

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Pre-dreadnought battleships carried a considerable weight of steel armour.
European navies remained dominant in the pre-dreadnought era.
After the war the pre-dreadnought battleships were no longer needed.
Their construction and appearance was similar to miniaturized pre-dreadnought battleships.
But the old pre-Dreadnought battleships were in for a nasty surprise.
Their armament typically consisted of a turret taken from a de-commissioned pre-dreadnought battleship.
In spite of their limitations, the pre-dreadnought squadron played a useful role.
The pre-dreadnought battleship in its heyday was the core of a very diverse navy.
Mikasa is the last remaining example of a pre-dreadnought battleship anywhere in the world.
Japan was involved in two of the three major naval wars of the pre-dreadnought era.
The resulting design was the last pre-dreadnought type of battleship built by the Austro-Hungarian navy.
Their construction and appearance was often that of miniaturized pre-dreadnought battleships.
He was then transferred to the pre-dreadnought battleship Hannover for his on-board training.
At the beginning of the war Horthy was commanding the pre-dreadnought battleship.
It is the last of the British pre-dreadnought battleships before the ships became obsolete.

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First class Cruisers were typically armoured cruisers, hard to distinguish from a small pre-dreadnought battleship.
The beginning of the pre-dreadnought era coincided with Britain reasserting her naval dominance.
The Russian force consisted of five pre-dreadnought battleships.
Liberté was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, and the lead ship of her class.
In this service she became the last British pre-dreadnought to serve operationally overseas.
König sank the pre-dreadnought Slava, while Kronprinz forced the withdrawal of the remaining warships.
The crew was removed temporarily, to bring the pre-dreadnought Schlesien back into service.
Iéna was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy.
IJN Mikasa is the last existing example of pre-dreadnought battleship in the World.
Justice was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Liberté class built by the French Navy.
The Liberté class was a group of four pre-dreadnought battleships of the French Navy.
The pre-dreadnought and two torpedo boats bombarded Potenza Picena, then returned to Pula naval base.
The flotilla was reinforced by the elderly pre-dreadnought battleship Canopus and the armored cruiser Defence.
Pre-dreadnought director system.
Abdül Kadir was to have been the Ottoman Navy 's first pre-dreadnought battleship.
The Austro-Hungarian Navy had nine pre-dreadnought and four dreadnought Tegetthoff-class battleships and a number of submarines.
Dreadnoughts were significantly larger-and correspondingly more expensive-than the old pre-dreadnought battleships.
List of pre-Dreadnought battleships of the United Kingdom.
HMS Ocean was typical of pre-dreadnought battleships.
Slava a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships.
The Deutschland class was a group of five pre-dreadnought battleships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine.
Dreadnoughts were significantly larger - and correspondingly more expensive - than the old pre-dreadnought battleships.
Brandenburg was the first pre-dreadnought battleship of the Kaiserliche Marine Imperial Navy.
HMS Swiftsure, originally known as Constitución, was the lead ship of the Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleships.
The four Brandenburg-class battleships were the first pre-dreadnought battleships of the Kaiserliche Marine Imperial Navy.
Pre-dreadnought fleets and battles 5.
She was the Royal Navy 's last pre-dreadnought.
Nevertheless, the pre-dreadnought played a major role in the War.
Built from steel, and protected by hardened steel armour, pre-dreadnought ….
The four Brandenburg-class pre-dreadnought battleships were Germany's first ocean-going battleships.
Togo 's flagship, the Mikasa, is an excellent example of pre-dreadnought.
The " Royal Sovereign " class was a class of pre-dreadnought battleships of the British Royal Navy.
The pre-dreadnought battleship Asahi was modified and recommissioned as a repair ship in 1938.
Quick-firing guns were a key characteristic of the pre-dreadnought battleship, the dominant design of the 1890s.
The pre-dreadnought served as a showpiece of the Italian victory parade held in March 1919.

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