Special 1: HMS Warspite
History of the Second World War
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The Origins of the Dreadnought
The Royal Navy had a completely insurmountable advantage in pre-dreadnought capital ships, almost more than the rest of the world combined. In these new ships, these new dreadnoughs, they had reset the counter to one. This would greatly intensify the naval arms race with Germany in the years before the First World War. While both navies began to build dreadnougs, they also did not stop innovating on the design, although in smaller ways. The culmination of this evolution would be the Queen Elizabeth class, which represented the first real combination of the battleship and the battle cruiser. However, before these ships could become a reality, the first lord of the
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