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Britain's first "Fearless" warships landed

The fearless ship.

On February 10, 1906, the world's largest warships, the Royal Navy's "Fearless", landed.

The ship began construction in October 1905 and cost $7.5 million to complete. The ship was powered by turbines and was equipped with 10 doors with 12 inch diameter heavy guns. Its appearance demonstrated that the contradiction between Britain and Germany had developed to a degree of white heat, and everyone wanted to overcome each other in the arms race at sea.

In the 20th century, Britain was an old-fashioned imperialist, and in the 20th century it was implementing a “Greater Britain” plan to subdue the nations of the world to its powers. But the increasingly powerful German Empire was also implementing a so-called “Greater German Will” or “Central European Empire” plan, seeking to encompass Central European countries and establish a huge German Empire in Africa and the Pacific region, directly threatening British colonial interests. The naval arms race between the two countries was also increasingly sharp under such circumstances. According to 1905 statistics, when Britain owned ordinary armored ships of 65, Germany had 26 ships. But at that time, Germany was successfully implementing a naval construction plan that Tilpitz would set out, with a

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