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 2017 combat flight simulator video game Dreadnoughts (video game), a 1992 First World War naval strategy computer 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