Any discussion of HMS Dreadnought will need to reference her creator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fisher,_1st_Baron_Fisher
Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot “Jacky” Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher,[3] GCB OM GCVO (25 January 1841 – 10 July 1920) was a British admiral known for his efforts at naval reform. He had a huge influence on the Royal Navy in a career spanning more than 60 years, starting in a navy of wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon and ending in one of steel-hulled battlecruisers, submarines and the first aircraft carriers. The argumentative, energetic, reform-minded Fisher is often considered the second most important figure in British naval history, after Lord Nelson.
He was a driving force behind the development of the fast, all-big-gun battleship, and chaired the Committee on Designs which produced the outline design for the first modern battleship, HMS Dreadnought.
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Another excellent contribution today.
“Build them First and Build Them Fast. Each One Better than the Last”- Admiral Fisher.
And thoroughly fouled up his Navy’s best chance of actually getting a fire-control system that really worked!
Went with the “Navy-approved experts” ... Instead of the better system