a controversial decision had been made to employ the smaller 15-inch guns – even as the then U.S. Navy modern battleships, as well as the HMS Nelson-class, were outfitted with 16-inch main guns. There ...

Indeed, the construction of the two Lord Nelson–class battleships was so delayed by the concentration on Dreadnought that they weren’t commissioned until 1908. Laid down in October 1905 (five ...