1910s Dreadnought Battleship Waterline Model

A pre-WW1 dreadnought battleship as a waterline model with a flat bottom. The long hull carries three big twin-gun turrets, two tall tripod masts with spotting tops, two round funnels, ship's boats on davits, a central superstructure with portholes and a row of casemate gun ports along the hull side. After 1906 the all-big-gun dreadnought made earlier battleships obsolete almost overnight, setting off a naval arms race between Britain, Germany and other powers in the years before WW1. Heavy tur…

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