Description:When Lord Fisher as First Sea Lord ordered HMS Dreadnought to be built in January 1905, he not only started a revolution in naval construction, but also unintentionally upgraded the German Navy Laws of 1898 and 1900.The first of these laws was intended by Admiral Tirpitz, who introduced them, to put order into the plans which had been drawn up repeatedly since 1871 for a German Navy, but which had never been carried out completely.