Dreadnaughts

popular designation of the most modern type of great battleships and armored cru is: ers, derived from the name of the first ship of its cla , the British “ Dreadnaught,” which had a dispoor of 17,900 tons. In 1910 razil, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Ru ia, and the United States were rushing work, not only on ships of the original “ Dreadnaug!)t” lines, but on still more powerful ones, designated as * Super-Dreadnaught.” Extreme examples of the latest type were the British “ Lion,” claimed to be superior as a fighting machine to any battleship afloat, having a displacement of 26,000 tons, and cost $10,- 875,000, and the Brazilian “ Rio Janeiro,” then building in England, the largest of all battleships, with displacement of 32.000 tons, cost $14,500,000. The United States had the “North Dakota” and “-Delaware,” the former considered the swiftest battleship in the world; and Congre authorized the construction of two 27,000-ton ve els, to cost not over $12,500,000 each.