The Dreadnought is Searadias first attempt at an ocean going all big gun battleship. Laid down in 1905 and launched a year later with allot of pre-planning and new techniques going into her construction to build her as quickly as possible. Outfitting had only taken 4 months, and she had entered into a “hot” service in 1906, that being she was still being worked on, and last minute fixes being made. This was all to show off to the surrounding nations what searadia was capable of and to kick start a revolution in naval warfare which had been coming to a head for a while. She was Searadias heaviest warship when launched at 21,300 tonnes, and most heavily armed with 12-310mm guns. She was also the fastest capital ship at 20 knots, but not the fastest in the world. Her war career involved several naval skirmishes around the Searadia region and across the surounding ocean over the years, before being withdrawn for home service. She would be scrapped in 1926 as she was in poor condition
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