From here, I’ll let Martin’s website take over: The proportions were different as well, featuring a wider waist than previous models. His dreadnought guitars were larger and deeper than other guitars on the market at the time. president Frank Henry Martin was looking for a name that evoked hugeness, he thought of HMS Dreadnought. The name dreadnought was subsequently used to describe the class of battleships based on the design of HMS Dreadnought. In 1915, it became the only battleship to successfully sink a submarine when it rammed the German U-29 (a scene depicted on the top of Martin's LE-HMSD-2015 Limited Edition Battleship Dreadnought Guitar, pictured in this post). It also featured a massive gun array and was protected by thick steel armor. HMS Dreadnought was the first battleship of its size to be powered by steam turbines, making it the fastest battleship on the sea when it was completed. (HMS stands for Her/His Majesty’s Ship, a prefix given to many ships in the British Royal Navy.) But this particular ship was a significant departure from the old world battleships that preceded it.
Limited Edition LE-HMSD-2015 Battleship Dreadnought Guitar featuring a detailed painting of the HMS Dreadnought.Ĭompleted in 1906, HMS Dreadnought was actually the sixth ship to bear the name, which was reserved for the most powerful battleship in the British Royal Navy. So they were named dreadnoughts, after HMS Dreadnought, a World War I era British battleship.
built their innovative large-body guitars in the early 1900s, they wanted to give them a name synonymous with enormity.
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