The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century.

Dreadnought may also refer to:

Ships

  • English ship Dreadnought (1573), a 41-gun ship
  • HMS Dreadnought (1660), a 52-gun third-rate ship of the line
  • HMS Dreadnought (1691), a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line
  • HMS Dreadnought (1742), a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line
  • HMS Dreadnought (1801), a 98-gun second-rate
  • Dreadnought (clipper), a three-masted medium clipper ship that sailed for the Red Cross Line of New York and Liverpool packets
  • HMS Dreadnought (1875), a battleship
  • HMS Dreadnought (1906), a revolutionary "all big gun" battleship
  • HMS Dreadnought (S101), a nuclear-powered submarine launched in 1960
  • USS Dreadnought (SP-584), a patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
  • Dreadnought-class submarine - the planned replacements for the UK Trident deterrent fleet

Literature

  • Dreadnought!, a 1986 Star Trek novel by Diane Carey
  • Dreadnought (book), a 1991 book by Robert K. Massie
  • Workers' Dreadnought, a newspaper of the suffragettes
  • Dreadnought: a History of the Modern Battleship, a 1975 book by Richard Hough
  • Dreadnought, a 2010 alternate history steampunk novel by Cherie Priest
  • The Lost Fleet: Beyond The Frontier: Dreadnought, a novel in Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet series
  • Dreadnought, a 2017 superhero novel by April Daniels

Film and television

  • Under Siege or Dreadnought, a Steven Seagal film
  • "Dreadnought", an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
  • "Dreadnought", an episode of V: The Series
  • Star Dreadnought, a type of star destroyer in the Star Wars films

Entertainment

  • Dreadnought (naval wargame), a 1975 wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc.
  • Dreadnoughts (game), a 1992 videogame
  • Dreadnought (video game), a combat flight simulator video game
  • Dreadnought Galaxy, a fictional galaxy from the video game Super Mario Galaxy
  • Dreadnought (comics), fictional robots from Marvel Comics
  • Dreadnought (DC Comics), fictional villain from DC Comics

Rail

  • Dreadnought, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive between 1891 and 1915
  • LNWR Dreadnought Class, a class of 2-2-2-0 compound locomotives designed by F. W. Webb
  • The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Class 8 locomotives were nicknamed Dreadnoughts
  • The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Hughes 4-6-4T tank engines were called Dreadnought tanks
  • Dreadnought, a type of suburban railway carriage used on the Metropolitan Railway and London Underground between 1910 and the early 1960s
  • Dreadnaught wheel, a wheel with articulated rails attached at the rim to provide a firm footing

Other uses

  • Dreadnought hoax, a 1910 English hoax when members of the Bloomsbury Group visited a British battleship disguised as the Emperor of Abyssinia and entourage
  • Dreadnought (guitar type)
  • Mullahoran GFC Dreadnoughts, a GAA club based in Cavan, Ireland
  • Portsmouth Dreadnoughts, an American Football team currently based in Portsmouth, England
  • The Dreadnoughts, a Canadian folk punk band
  • Wakefield Trinity, an English rugby league football club nicknamed "The Dreadnoughts"
  • Dreadnoughts, nickname for heavy work clothing especially on a ship

See also

  • Dreadnoks
  • Dreadnaught (disambiguation)
  • Dreadnoughtus, dinosaur genus