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Dreadnought Preliminary Design Approved

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1905

John Arbuthnot Fisher18 January 1905

London · Warfare / World War, 1st

The Committee on Designs approves preliminary plans for the all-big-gun battleship that becomes HMS Dreadnought.

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John Arbuthnot Fisher

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