Mountbatten Medallic History of Great Britain and the Sea Medal: HMS Dreadnought First Turbine-driven Big Gun Battleship
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Lord Mountbatten of Burma
(Frogmore House, Windsor, England, 1900 - 1979)
Medallist
John Pinches, Medallists
DateMay 2004
Object NameMedal
MediumSterling Silver
ClassificationsMedals
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDMS072500.74
Keywords
The ship met the requirements of Admiral Fisher and other forward-looking men who had visualised a turbine-driven, big gun ship which would render all other capital ships obsolete at a stroke. Her designer, J.H. Narbeth, fulfilled all expectations, and in many ways exceeded them. The Dreadnought was of 17 ,900 tons displacement. She was armed with ten 12-inch guns and four torpedo tubes, and had 27 twelve-pounder guns for fighting at close range. She had four screws, and could burn oil as well as coal. Her Parsons turbines gave her a maximum speed of 21 knots. One extraordinary feature of her internal arrangements was that the officers were berthed forward and the men aft, except for the Admiral's and Captain's cabins in the stern.
The successful completion of her trials led to a naval armaments race with Germany and to the launching of no less than 177 comparable vessels all over the world in the next 60 years. Only the clear demonstration of the superiority of air power provided in the Second World War ended the era of the big gun battleship inaugurated by the Dreadnought.
She was in commission for 14 years. In March 1915, while excercising with the wartime Fleet, she rammed and sank the German 029, thus the Dreadnought avenged the loss of three British cruisers six months earlier.
The Mountbatten Medallic History of Great Britain and the Sea, John Pinches Medallists Ltd.
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