1906 15 Oct. 5/5 The all-big-gun battleship was first conceived in Italy, and both the United States and Japan designed such vessels before we did.
1947 17 Nov. 87/2 (caption) This 17,900-ton watchdog for Britain's wide-flung empire [sc. the ‘Dreadnought’] was the first all big-gun battleship. She had 10 12-inchers.
1995 J. Goldrick in J. R. Hill x. 283 Fisher took the fast armoured cruiser a step further when he conceived the idea of marrying to it an all-big-gun armament.