1906
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Britain
- First all big-gunned
battleship 'Dreadnought' (10-12in)
completed for the Royal Navy led to a rapid
building race between Britain and Germany, in
which other major powers joined. |
1908
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Britain - 3 'Invincible'
class battlecruisers (8-12in): 'Invincible', 'Indomitable',
'Inflexible'. |
1909
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Britain - 3 'Bellerophon'
class (10-12in): 'Bellerophon', 'Superb',
'Temeraire'. 
Germany
- First German dreadnoughts, 4
'Westfalen' class (12-11in): 'Westfalen',
'Nassau', 'Posen', 'Rheinland'.
- Also large
armoured cruiser/battlecruiser
'Blucher'
(12-8.2in).
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1910
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Britain - 3 'St Vincent'
class (10-12in): 'St Vincent', 'Collingwood',
'Vanguard'. Germany - Battlecruiser
'Von der Tann' (8-11in).
 Japan - First
Dreadnoughts, 2 'Satsuma' class (4-12in and
12-10in): 'Satsuma', 'Aki'
 U.S.A. - First 4 Dreadnoughts
- 2 'South Carolina' (8-12in) and 2 'Delaware'
class (10-12in)
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1911
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Britain - 'Neptune' (10-12in)
- 2 'Colossus'
class (10-12in): 'Colossus', 'Hercules'
- First of 3
'Indefatigable' class battlecruisers
(8-12in): 'Indefatigable', 'New Zealand'
completed in 1912, 'Australia' in 1913.
France - 6 'Danton' class
pre-Dreadnought battleships (4-12in)
Germany - 4 'Helgoland' class
(12-12in): 'Thuringen', 'Helgoland',
'Ostfriesland', 'Oldenburg'.
- 2 'Moltke'
class battlecruisers (10-11in): 'Moltke',
'Goeben' (transferred to Turkey 1914).
U.S.A. - 2
'Florida' class Dreadnoughts (10-12in).
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1912
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Austria - First Austro-Hungarian
Dreadnoughts, 4 'Tegetthoff' class (12-12in): 'Viribus
Unitis',
'Tegetthoff' completed in 1913, 'Prinz Eugen' in
1914, 'Szent Istvan' in 1915. Britain - 4 'Orion' class
(10-13.5in): 'Orion', 'Monarch', 'Thunderer',
'Conqueror'.
4 'King George
V' class (10-13.5in): 'King George V', 'Centurion' 'Audacious', 'Ajax'.
2 'Lion' class
battlecruisers (8-13.5in): 'Lion', 'Princess
Royal'.
Germany - 5 'Kaiser' class
(10-12in): 'Kaiser', 'Friedrich der Grosse',
'Kaiserin', 'Prinz Regent Luitpold', 'Koenig
Albert'.
Japan
- 2
'Settsu' class (12-12in): 'Settsu', 'Kawachi'
U.S.A. - 2
'Wyoming' class (12-12in)
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1913
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Britain - Battlecruiser 'Queen
Mary'
(8-13.5in). Germany - Battlecruiser 'Seydlitz'
(10-11in).
 France - First
Dreadnoughts, 4 'Courbet' class (12-12in)
completed in 1913 and 1914: 'Jean Bart',
'Courbet', 'Paris', 'France'.
Italy - First Dreadnought - 'Dante
Alighieri' (12-12in).
Japan - 4 'Kongo' class
battlecruisers (8-14in) completed through to
1915: 'Kongo', 'Hiei', 'Haruna', 'Kirishima'.
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1914
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Britain - 4 'Iron Duke'
class (10-13.5in): 'Iron Duke', 'Marlborough',
'Benbow', 'Emperor of India'.
'Erin'
(ex-Turkish 'Reshadieh', 10-13.5in).
'Agincourt'
(ex-Turkish 'Sultan Osman I', 14-12in).
Battlecruiser
'Tiger' (8-13.5in).
Germany - 4 'Konig' class
(10-12in): 'Grosser Kurfurst', 'Konig',
'Markgraf', 'Kronprinz Wilhelm'.
First of 3
'Derfflinger' class battlecruisers (8-12in):
'Derfflinger' completed in 1914, 'Lutzow' in
1915, 'Hindenburg' in 1917.
Italy - 3
'Cavour' class (12-12in) ; 'Giulio Cesare', 'Leonardo
da Vinci' completed,
'Conte di Cavour' in 1915.
Russia (Baltic Fleet) - First Dreadnoughts, 4
'Gangut' class (12-12in): 'Gangut',
'Petropavlovsk', 'Poltava', 'Sevastopol'. (Black Sea
Fleet,
included 'Imperatritsa Mariya' launched but not completed
until 1915)
Turkey - Two Dreadnoughts building in
Britain, but seized on outbreak of war
U.S.A. - 2
'New York' class (10-14in)
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