Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31739971-20180219134335/@comment-31512320-20180304115739

The word battleship was coined around 1794 and is a contraction of the phrase line-of-battle ship, the dominant wooden warship during the Age of Sail.[1]  The term came into formal use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ironclad warship,[2]  now referred to by historians as pre-dreadnought battleships. In 1906, the commissioning of HMS Dreadnought heralded a revolution in battleship design. Subsequent battleship designs, influenced by HMS Dreadnought, were referred to as "dreadnoughts", though the term eventually became obsolete as they became the only type of battleship in common use.