South Carolina was a capable early all-big-gun design, although its roughly 18.5-knot speed and conservative overall package limited the scale of its advance. In this assessment, HMS Dreadnought made the larger operational break from preceding battleships. The comparison concerns the whole design rather than a single feature. South Carolina still remained a good ship for its time.
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Why Dreadnought was more transformative than South Carolina
South Carolina was a capable early all-big-gun ship; HMS Dreadnought is assessed as the more complete operational break from preceding battleships.