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the value of the steam turbine. The 

 Dreadnought had a displacement of 17,900 

 tons, and most of her guns were of the 

 i2-in. variety. The use of a number of 

 those guns made firing practice extremely 

 costly, as each discharge worked out at 

 about jioo. Very expensive armour had 

 to be employed. This was of Krupp steel, 

 ii ins. thick, which, under test, proved to 

 have greater resisting qualities than 20 ins. 

 of the armour-plating described a little 

 time since. 



It may be truly said that the Dreadnought 

 set the pattern for the world, and at once 

 other nations began to take part in the 

 race for big, powerful, high-speed battle- 

 ships. 



Directly they produced something 

 approximating the Dreadnought , we, as 

 the premier Navy, had to go one better, 

 so in 1909 what were called the super- 

 Dreadnoughts began to appear. In two 

 short years, the Dreadnought, about which 

 pages upon pages were written, was a 



