* A " Jumbo " body style is bigger again than a Grand Auditorium but similarly proportioned, and is generally designed to provide a deeper tone, similar to a dreadnought ( the body style was designed by Gibson to compete with the dreadnought ) but with maximum resonant space for greater volume and sustain.

The foremost example of this style is the Gibson J-200, but like the dreadnought, most guitar manufacturers have at least one jumbo model.

Originally devised in 1916 as a collaboration between Martin and a prominent retailer, the Oliver Ditson Co., the dreadnought body style was larger and deeper than most guitars.

Admiral John Jellicoe, described by Churchill as the only man who could " lose the war in an afternoon " by losing the strategic British superiority in dreadnought battleships, was not a dashing showman like David Beatty.

The Reichstag was persuaded to agree to the program and passed a Novelle amending the navy bills and allocating 940 million GM for a dreadnought program and the necessary infrastructure.

Martin's second major innovation, and arguably the more important, of the period 1915-1930 was the dreadnought guitar.

In 1908 the armored cruiser was supplanted by the battlecruiser which, with armament equivalent to that of a dreadnought battleship and steam turbine engines, was faster and more powerful than armored cruisers.

* HMS Colossus was a Colossus class dreadnought battleship launched in 1910.

* was an early dreadnought launched in 1909 and scrapped in 1922.

This creature was later identified in 2nd edition as an astral dreadnought.

The Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet commanded by Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, consisting of 16 dreadnought and 5 pre-dreadnought battleships, 5 battle cruisers, 11 light cruisers, and 61 fleet torpedo boats, was engaged by the numerically superior British Grand Fleet under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, composed of 28 battleships, 9 battle cruisers, 8 armoured cruisers, 28 light cruisers and 78 destroyers.

While en route down the Adriatic, the dreadnought was torpedoed and sunk by an Italian torpedo boat at dawn on 10 June, resulting in the attack being cancelled.

In both wars the Hyperion class was the primary ship of the line, alongside the Nova-class dreadnought.

The main Ukrainian sea power concentrated in Odessa and Nikolayev was more than 20 minesweepers, 7 small cruisers, 1 dreadnought and more than 30 auxiliaries.

The greatest loss suffered by the Russian Black Sea fleet was the destruction of the modern dreadnought Imperatritsa Mariya, which blew up in port on 7 October 1916, just one year after it was commissioned.

It was late to introduce new battleships-dreadnoughts and light cruisers and it entered World War I with relatively few modern vessels: only one dreadnought in commission at war's start, though all four Courbets by the end of 1914 and the 3 improved dreadnoughts by mid-1916.

Armoured warships ( dreadnought battleships, armoured cruisers and later light and heavy cruisers ) of the early 20th century carried their main protective armour above the waterline – the " main belt " – which was intended to stop flat-trajectory gunfire from piercing the hull.

But he wrote that Germany was the principal cause of international tensions, writing that :" Our Battle Fleet-not the British one-has sparked off the naval arms race among the Great Powers, with the result that even Austria is now engaging in the dreadnought gamble.

According to specialists, the first Russian dreadnought Sevastopol, which was launched in 1911, " was many years ahead of the world in shipbuilding.

* June 10 – WWI: The Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleship SMS Szent István is sunk by two Italian MAS motor torpedo boats off the Dalmatian coast.

** Greek battleship Salamis a dreadnought ordered from Germany by Greece in 1912 but not delivered due to the outbreak of World War I

The dreadnought is used by the military branch of the Earth Alliance called EarthForce.

They were rendered obsolete by the revolutionary dreadnought battleships which began to appear in 1906 and which differed from predreadnoughts in having steam turbine propulsion and an " all-big-gun " armament layout in which the ships primary gun power resided in a primary battery of its largest guns intended for use at long range, with other gun armament limited to small weapons intended for defense against torpedo boats and other small warships.

In 1908 he returned to sea in command of the new dreadnought battleship HMS Bellerophon, the second of the new class of ships being created by Fisher.

Austria-Hungary's naval architects, aware of the inevitable dominance of all big gun dreadnought type designs, then presented their case to the Marinesektion des Reichskriegsministeriums ( Naval Section at the War Ministry ) in Vienna, which on October 5, 1908 ordered the construction of their own dreadnought, the first contract being awarded to ' Werft das Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino ( STT )', the naval weaponry to be provided by the Škoda Works in Pilsen.

Limpet mines were first used by Italian divers in the sinking of the dreadnought SMS Viribus Unitis in Pula, 1 November 1918.

In 1931, Martin reintroduced the dreadnought with X-bracing and two years later gave it a modified body shape to accommodate a 14-fret neck, and it quickly became their best-selling guitar.

British shipyards were ordered to produce the " dreadnought battleships -" Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, of which only the first two where delivered, for lack of funds.

The popularity of the larger " dreadnought " body size amongst acoustic performers is related to the greater sound volume produced.

* 000-1: Slightly smaller in all dimensions than a dreadnought guitar ( the " standard " acoustic guitar ), solid Sitka spruce top, solid mahogany back, laminated mahogany sides, tortoiseshell binding, rosewood fingerboard.

By mid-1966, they realized that the parabolic shape produced a desirable tone with greater volume than the conventional dreadnought.

Larger and later dreadnought battleships carried superimposed or superfiring turrets ( i. e. one turret mounted higher than and firing over those in front of and below it ).

Martin's " D " series such as the D-28 are classic examples of the dreadnought.

Two of his main stage guitars, notably his signature TE1 Maton dreadnought, are battered and worn due to his excessive playing and percussive techniques.

Ultimately this line of development lead to the dreadnought class of all-big-gun battleship, starting with the HMS Dreadnought ( 1906 ).

* D-1: All solid dreadnought with a spruce top and sapele back and sides.

Their first prototype had a conventional " dreadnought " body, with parallel front and back perpendicular to the sides.

Relieved of command of Yankton shortly after the United States entered World War I in the spring of 1917, Fitch continued his staff duties for another five months before joining to serve as her gunnery officer for the remainder of hostilities, as that dreadnought operated with the 6th Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet.

He pushed hard for funds to modernise the navy, supporting the construction of new classes of dreadnought battleships.

By the start of the First World War, the German Imperial Navy possessed 22 pre-Dreadnoughts, 19 dreadnought battleships and 7 battlecruisers.

*, battleship of the New York-class,, the only surviving dreadnought battleship.

In the early 20th century, the dreadnought changed the balance of power in convoy battles.

Britain's First Sea Lord Admiral Fisher argued the Japanese victory at Tsushima confirmed the importance of large guns and speed on modern battleships, and in October 1905 the British began construction of HMS Dreadnought, which upon her launching in 1906 began a dreadnought naval arms race between Britain and Germany in the years before 1914.

The wrecks of and the dreadnought, which exploded at anchor during the First World War, are war graves protected under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.

One notable disaster took place under Kolchak's watch: the dreadnought Empress Maria blew up in the port of Sevastopol on October 7, 1916.

The rest of the industry soon followed, and today the " dreadnought " size and shape is considered one of the " standard " acoustic guitar shapes, iconic for its use in a wide variety of musical genres.

The acquisition of these guns, representative of the dreadnought era of British battleships, led the museum to seek to acquire a 6-inch triple turret that would be representative of a number of classes of British cruisers.

Reporting to the battleship Arizona ( BB-39 ) in February 1927, Bristol served as executive officer of that dreadnought until April of the following year, and then moved to the Naval Air Station ( NAS ), San Diego, California for aviation instruction.