What is the HMS Dreadnought?
English ship Dreadnought (1573): Dreadnought was a 41-gun galleon of the Tudor navy, built by Mathew Baker and launched in 1573. HMS Dreadnought (1906):  Its entry into service in 1906 represented such an advance in naval technology that its name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the "dreadnoughts", as well as the class of ships named after it.
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