super-super-dreadnoughts

Updated: May 19, 2025

The future, as we British seem to see it, is an avenue of Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts and Super-Super-Dreadnoughts, getting bigger and bigger in a kind of inverted perspective. But the ascendancy of fleets of great battleships in naval warfare, like the phase of huge conscript armies upon land, draws to its close.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - An Englishman Looks at the World