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The Battleship That Changed Everything: HMS Dreadnought

Warship Designs with Mike Brady

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HM Dockyard Portsmouth - February 10th, 1906 and a massive hull slides down the ways to the hooting and blasting of steam whistles.
Her name was HMS Dreadnought and when she was introduced Dreadnought really did live up to her name - she was an absolutely enormous step forward and even the newest classes of British warship like HMS Lord Nelson were made to look lumbering and positively ancient. It sparked a craze across the globe - a moment so utterly striking that warships made before that point became simply known as pre-Dreadnoughts. What was it about this mighty ship that inspired so much change - and how did her design result in one of the fiercest arms races in history?

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@WarshipDesigns Creator 2 months ago Pinned

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@AugmentedGravity 3 months ago

Dreadnought is also just the coolest name for a warship ever.

@woodchild2093 3 months ago

When I finished my 1/700 HMS Dreadnought, I was surprised at how large ships got in the 30 years after it was finished. Next to some of my other 1/700 ships it looks like a large Destroyer.

@Eli_RS_516 3 months ago

Hear me out guys:
This channel is Warship Designs, so why not have Mike design a warship? Use UAD or something, or even create his own model

@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 3 months ago

Really wish she was preserved, would have looked sooo epic right next to the HMS Victory,

@JetDom767 3 months ago (edited)

Its my friend Mike Brady! Thanks for keeping me entertained on my commute home. Turbinia is currently in the Discovery museum in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

@Steadieeddie 3 months ago

It’s our friend Mike Brady! My toddler and I watch your videos when he’s cutting teeth or can’t sleep (you qualify as low-stimulation!) and he asks for “Deedee” when he wants to watch you. Excellent work, as always🚢

@asicdathens 3 months ago

Parsons not only invented the steam turbine engine, he also pioneered the propeller cavitation issues. He made the first cavitation test rig and eliminated cavitation for Turbinia

@oryctolaguscuniculus 2 months ago

Dreadnought began one important innovation with regards to survivability and armour protection which isn't covered here: the bulkheads between her boiler and engine rooms were completely unpierced. There were no penetrations for cables, trunking, not even any watertight doors. If you needed to go from one engine or boiler room to the next, you had to go up a ladder to the next deck, then down another ladder. This came as a direct result of despatches from British observers with the IJN during the Battle of Tsushima—most notably Captain Pakenham—who noted that nominally 'watertight' glands and doors invariably failed or were blown away completely under shell and torpedo impact. This was a weakness British naval officers noted in US battleships of the 6th Battle Squadron and German capital ships seized after the scuttling at Scapa Flow.

@terikronberg8291 3 months ago

I've always found battleships cool. I am completely engrossed in this story of the history of them.

@andrewgillis3073 3 months ago

Why not do HMS Warspite next? She had a long and distinguished career, with many improvements.

@SennaAugustus 3 months ago

HMS Queen Elizabeth (00) never gets discussed as a leap forward in warship design but I think the class represented a bigger improvement than Dreadnought. It was the beginning of the end of both dreadnoughts and battlecruisers, the best of both worlds combined into one type of ship, the fast battleship. There was the transition from coal to oil, another massive change in efficiency and reliability. The QEs had guns made for them that were put on the last battleship HMS Vanguard (23). The class lasted 30 years in front line service, not once held back as fleet-in-being, they were out there all day, scaring away ships almost twice as fast (Malaya vs Scharnhorst and Gneisenau). Long distance? Yes (world record). Short distance? Yes (point blank). Fight battleships? Fought the entire fleet by themselves when they got lost at Jutland. Fight cruisers? Sank a whole class of ships. Fight destroyers? Sank half of Germany’s destroyers. Fight submarines? 1W1L. Best money ever spent on warships.

@autobotjazz1972 3 months ago

The greatest irony of HMS Dreadnought is that she was so revolutionary that she nullified to a degree the advantage the Royal Navy had in what would very quickly become Pre-dreadnoughts and accelerate the arms race between the UK and Germany in the years leading up to WW1.

@adrianperry8352 3 months ago

Some writers see the lower profile that turbines permitted (as against reciprocating piston engines) as a major advantage - creating a smaller target.

@Goppenstein 3 months ago

Btw, the clip you got at 7:53 is of a 2cyl swiss Paddlesteamer. Judging by the condener pump linkage Probably the Savoie of lake geneva.

@BadgerOfTheSea 11 days ago

Starting your career as a midshipman on an old ship of the line and ending it on a pre dreadnaught battleship would be like if someone who joined the Navy today ended their career on a star ship

@karlzen86 2 months ago

"Unopposed under crimson skies
Immortalized, over time their legend will rise
And their foes can't believe their eyes,
believe their size,
as they fall
And the Dreadnoughts dread! nothing at all!"

@danesorensen1775 2 months ago

I knew Dreadnought was obsolete by WWI but I'd never realised she wasn't at Jutland. That's kind of hilarious.

@SergioSeminarioC 3 months ago (edited)

Although I always love the story of the Dreadnought, it's surprising how nobody ever talks about the South Dakotas, which was built at the same time but introduced slightly later, carrying superfiring turrets.