![]() From Portsmouth she steamed south to the Mediterranean, then shaped a course across the Atlantic to Trinidad, and back again. The Dreadnought’s performance on sea trials was nothing short of sensational. ![]() Mounting eight immense 15-inch guns, she could fire a barrage 15 times heavier than that of Admiral Nelson’s flagship Victory in 1805 at Trafalgar. The apogee of World War I battleship design, the superdreadnought Queen Elizabeth displays her might and majesty in this postwar painting by Oscar Parkes. ![]() Front Cover, The Dreadnoughts by David Armine Howarth and the Editors of Time-Life Books, 1979.
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