2114: dreadnought(s) Sep 28, 2020

There are lots of types of boats have been used by navies around the world like aircraft carriers, battlecruisers, or dreadnoughts, but while others might be named for function, at least dreadnoughts were named for one ship in particular, the HMS Dreadnought. When it was deployed in 1906, it so totally eclipsed other naval vessels of the time in due to having a single, large main battery and steampowered turbines that the class of ship was named after it—its own name coming from 'dread nought' i.e. 'fear nothing'—and the earlier generation of battleships began then became known officially as pre-dreadnoughts. That said, the ship itself never engaged in a major naval battle, and is notable only for ramming into and sinking a submarine. Its fame and size also inspired the name for a genus of dinosaur, Dreadnoughtus.