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HMS Dreadnought is a Royal Navy nuclear-powered Trident ballistic missile-armed submarine that is currently under construction. [1] The lead boat of her class, she is being built in Barrow-in-Furness. On completion she will become the UK's largest ever submarine. [2]
On 21 October 2016, the MoD announced that the first of the four planned boats would be named HMS Dreadnought, with the name also attached to the class. [102] Construction of Dreadnought had commenced by 2017. [103] On 6 December 2018, the second boat of this class was named as HMS Valiant. [104]
The Dreadnought class is the future replacement for the Royal Navy's Vanguard class of ballistic missile submarines. [1] Like their predecessors they will carry Trident II D-5 missiles. [ 4 ] The Vanguard submarines entered service in the United Kingdom in the 1990s with an intended service life of 25 years. [ 5 ]
HMS Dreadnought (1723) was a 60-gun ship of the line built at Portsmouth; HMS Dreadnought (1742) was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1742 and sold 1784. HMS Dreadnought (1801) was a 98-gun second rate launched in 1801, converted to a hospital ship in 1827, and broken up 1857. HMS Dreadnought (1856) was a hospital ship, formerly HMS Caledonia.
The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought, had such an effect when launched in 1906 that similar battleships built after her were referred to as "dreadnoughts", and earlier battleships became known as pre-dreadnoughts.
The seventh Royal Navy ship to be named HMS Dreadnought was the United Kingdom's first nuclear-powered submarine, built by Vickers Armstrongs at Barrow-in-Furness.Launched by Queen Elizabeth II on Trafalgar Day 1960 and commissioned into service with the Royal Navy in April 1963, she continued in service until 1980.
HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy battleship, the design of which revolutionised naval power. The ship's entry into service in 1906 represented such an advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the dreadnoughts , as well as the class of ships named after her.
HMS Inflexible about 1909. The Invincible-class ships were the first battlecruisers [Note 1] in the world. The design resembled that of HMS Dreadnought, but sacrificed armour protection and one gun turret from the main battery for a 4-knot (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) speed advantage.