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| Picture No | 10528880 |
| Date | 1913 |
| Description | Growth of the World's Dreadnoughts by G. H. Davis |
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The 'Dreadnought Fever' visualised in The Sphere by diagrammatic illustrator G. H. Davis, showing the huge growth in the building of dreadnoughts (all-big-gun battleships) since the first built by Britain in 1905 - the trigger for a naval arms race among the major powers in the years leading up to World War I.
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| Source | Illustration by G. H. Davis in The Sphere, 11 October 1913 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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