User blog comment:Void Samukai/BSC Kancolle/@comment-25722005-20150501025006/@comment-27822411-20150502043536

Screw the Dreadnought and South Carolina, the Japanese laid down the first dreadnoights, but due to cost and time, they were completed after Dradnought and as semi dreadnoughts, with wing 10 inch guns.

But still counts as first dreadnought laid down!!!