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How additional Dreadnought-class ships might have been named

Additional ships built to the Dreadnought design would probably have inherited the capital-ship names later used for Bellerophon, Temeraire and Superb.

Question

What names might additional ships of the Dreadnought class have received?

Short answer

They would not need D names; Bellerophon, Temeraire and Superb are plausible because those names went to the closely related successors.

Notes

Every sister's name would not need to begin with the letter D. Royal Navy practice supplied a broad pool of established capital-ship names rather than a rigid initial-letter scheme. Because the Bellerophon class followed Dreadnought with only modest design changes, Bellerophon, Temeraire and Superb are especially plausible names for additional ships of the original design. Likely names can therefore be inferred from the sequence of actual construction.