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2. Dreadnought - Wikipedia

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   The two 10-gun, 20,500-ton ships of the Delaware class were the first US battleships to match the speed of British dreadnoughts, but their secondary battery was "wet" (suffering from spray) and their bow was low in the water. An alternative 12-gun 24,000-ton design had many disadvantages as well; the extra two guns and a lower casemate had ...

3. Inverted bow - Wikipedia

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   The Ulstein X-Bow (or just X-BOW) is an inverted ship's bow designed by Ulstein Group to improve handling in rough seas, and to lower fuel consumption by causing less hydrodynamic drag. [1] It is shaped somewhat like a submarine's bow. [2] Bourbon Orca anchor tug, shown in 2012, was the first ship built with an Ulstein X-Bow in 2006.

4. Bow (watercraft) - Wikipedia

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   HMS Dreadnought, with an inverted bow. The seaworthy bow of a Severn class lifeboat in Poole. A heavily laden barge in France. Note the bluff bow and the limited freeboard. Flared bow of a cruise ship. A ship's bow should be designed to enable the hull to pass efficiently through the water.

5. Dreadnought-class submarine - Wikipedia

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   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 ]

6. USS Texas (BB-35) - Wikipedia

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   The United States Congress authorized the construction of Texas, the second Navy ship to be named after that state, on 24 June 1910. [16] [17] Bids for Texas were accepted from 27 September to 1 December with the winning bid of $5,830,000—excluding the price of armor and armament—submitted by Newport News Shipbuilding.

7. HMS Dreadnought (1906) - Wikipedia

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   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.

8. Courbet-class battleship - Wikipedia

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   The ships had a beam of 27 m (88 ft 7 in) and at full load a draft of 9.04 m (29 ft 8 in) at the bow. The ships were significantly heavier than the previous Danton class ; the Courbet -class ships displaced 23,475 tonnes (23,104 long tons ) at ( standard ) and 25,579 tonnes (25,175 long tons) at full load, over 5,000 tonnes (4,900 long tons ...

9. SMS Prinz Eugen (1912) - Wikipedia

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   SMS Prinz Eugen (His Majesty's Ship Prinz Eugen) [b] was the third of four Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleships built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Prinz Eugen was named for Prince Eugene of Savoy, a Habsburg general and statesman during the 17th and 18th centuries most notable for defeating the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Zenta in 1697.