Dreadnought (disambiguation)
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The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century.
Dreadnought may also refer to:
Ships
[edit]- English ship Dreadnought (1573), a 41-gun ship
- HMS Dreadnought (1654), a 52-gun third-rate ship of the line
- HMS Dreadnought (1691), a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line
- HMS Dreadnought (1742), a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line
- HMS Dreadnought (1801), a 98-gun second-rate
- Dreadnought (clipper), a three-masted medium clipper ship that sailed for the Red Cross Line of New York and Liverpool packets (see List of clipper ships)
- HMS Dreadnought (1875), a battleship
- HMS Dreadnought (1906), a revolutionary "all big gun" battleship
- HMS Dreadnought (S101), a nuclear-powered submarine launched in 1960
- USS Dreadnought (SP-584), a patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
- Dreadnought-class submarine - the planned replacements for the UK Trident deterrent fleet
Literature
[edit]- Dreadnought (book), a 1991 book by Robert K. Massie
- Workers' Dreadnought, a newspaper of the suffragettes
- Dreadnought: a History of the Modern Battleship, a 1975 book by Richard Hough
- Dreadnought, a 2010 alternate history steampunk novel by Cherie Priest
- The Lost Fleet: Beyond The Frontier: Dreadnought, a novel in Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet series
- Dreadnought, a 2017 superhero novel by April Daniels (author)
Film and television
[edit]- Under Siege or Dreadnought, a Steven Seagal film
Television episodes
[edit]- "Dreadnought", Star Trek: Voyager season 2, episode 17 (1996)
- "Dreadnought", V: The Series episode 2 (1984)
Rail
[edit]- Dreadnought, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive between 1891 and 1915
- The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Class 8 locomotives were nicknamed Dreadnoughts
- The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Hughes 4-6-4T tank engines were called Dreadnought tanks
- Dreadnought, a type of suburban railway carriage used on the Metropolitan Railway and London Underground between 1910 and the early 1960s
- Dreadnaught wheel, a wheel with articulated rails attached at the rim to provide a firm footing
Other uses
[edit]- Dreadnought hoax, a 1910 English hoax when members of the Bloomsbury Group visited a British battleship disguised as the Emperor of Abyssinia and entourage
- Dreadnought (naval wargame), a 1975 wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc.
- Dreadnoughts (game), a 1992 videogame
- Dreadnought (video game), a combat flight simulator video game
- Dreadnought (comics)
- Star Dreadnought, a type of star destroyer in the Star Wars films
- Dreadnought (guitar type)
- Portsmouth Dreadnoughts, an American Football team currently based in Portsmouth, England
- Mullahoran GFC Dreadnoughts, a GAA club based in Cavan, Ireland
- The Dreadnoughts, a Canadian folk punk band
- Wakefield Trinity, an English rugby league football club nicknamed "The Dreadnoughts"
- Dreadnought Galaxy, a fictional galaxy from the video game Super Mario Galaxy
- Dreadnought, a type of mobile weapons-platform from the tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000
See also
[edit]- Dreadnoks
- Dreadnaught (disambiguation)
- Dreadnoughtus, dinosaur genus