Naval technology leap-frogging down the centuries

 H/T @PhilipKAllan.  "The newly built HMS Dreadnought passing HMS Victory in 1906, showing the extraordinary pace of change in naval technology in the 100 years after Trafalgar."

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The HMS Victory was commissioned in 1765 and led the British fleet under Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21st, 1805.  Victory at Trafalgar led to the Treaty of Paris ten years later which, under Pax Britannia, ushered in the modern era of peace and prosperity and nearly a century without great power wars.  

Allan's photo compares 1805 to 1905 (roughly).  Is there any photo comparable today.  An Indiana-class battleship built in 1905 compared to the cutting edge surface naval technology such as a Nimitz carrier like USS Ronald Reagan today?  I am not seeing such a photo.  Any dreadnought or battleship built in 1905 was long out of data by World War II and few survived that conflict.  

There is this picture of The USS Ronald Reagan (commissioned in 2003) under way past the USS Missouri (battleship commissioned in 1944).

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The magnitude of striking power isn't necessarily as obvious as between the HMS Victory and the HMS Dreadnought, but it is even greater.  

The HMS Victory (1765) had a maximum range of less than a mile for its various cannon and carronade.  Limited cruising range of a few hundred miles.  

The HMS Dreadnought (1906) had a range of 11 miles for its 12 inch guns.  Cruising range of 7,500 miles.

The USS Missouri (1944) could lay a 16 inch shell on target 27 miles away.  Cruising range of 15,000 miles.

The USS Ronald Reagan (2003) Super Hornets have a range of 2,020 miles.  As a nuclear powered ship, its cruising range is unlimited.  

At each generation, the later generation was virtually impervious to the earlier, and the earlier indefensible against the later.