Having served in the Navy, I wondered what steampunk Navy would look like. This particular class looks like a pre-Dreadnaught battleship. The HMS Dreadnaught of 1906 was the first all big gun battleship and her powerplant used the then revolutionary oil fired boilers to drive a turbine which gave her superior speed to all. Suddenly all of the world's navies were obsolete and a mad dash naval arms race between the British Empire, German Empire, French Empire, Austria-Hungarian Empire, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire and the USA began which was one of the reasons for World War 1 of 1914-1918.