User blog comment:Void Samukai/The 7 key BBs in history/@comment-12494172-20160118191236

USS Texas. The Beginning of all battleships.

HMS Dreadnought. The Beginning of the modern battleship

HMS Queen Elizabeth. The First fast battleship

HMS Nelson. Off the top of my head the first battleship with an all forward weapons arrangement

HMS Hood. The matured concept of a battlecruiser- that ended up having equal effective protection as a battleship... The first classification fail of a ship of her size