Your birth year
2006
HMS Dreadnought
1906Warship
HMS Dreadnought is 100 years older than you
It's from 1906, before you were born.
- Commissioned
- 1906
- Type
- Battleship
- Impact
- All-big-gun era
About
As of 2026, it's 120 years old.
HMS Dreadnought entered service in 1906 and changed naval competition overnight.
Its all-big-gun design and turbine power were so influential that battleships were soon described as pre-dreadnought or dreadnought types.
HMS Dreadnought through the years
1906
1906
Commissioned
Dreadnought entered Royal Navy service.
You were born — 2006
