Dreadnought (disambiguation)

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, a type of mobile weapons-platform from the tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000
• 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