What You Need to Know: HMS Vanguard, Britain’s last battleship, was laid down in 1941 amid shifting naval tactics favoring ...

With a length of 814 feet and a draft of 36 feet, the HMS Vanguard was one of the longest battleships. The warship weighed over 45 tons with light loads and 52 tons fully equipped.

It is far easier to denote the final battleship to be constructed, and almost fittingly, it was another Royal Navy warship, HMS Vanguard – the last of her breed. Meet HMS Vanguard (23) ...

I recently wrote about the time HMS Vanguard went off course when leaving Portsmouth Harbour and all but collided with the Still and West pub at Point, Old Portsmouth, in 1960.

Enough cash to sink a battleship! How model enthusiasts will pay £831 to build magazine series replica of HMS Hood. By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 07:28 EDT, 31 August 2011 ...

Commemorations will be held this summer to mark the huge of loss of life caused when a Royal Navy battleship was blown apart at Scapa Flow in Orkney. More than 800 died when a series of internal ...

A project has begun to find photos of more than 840 men and boys who died when HMS Vanguard exploded at anchor in Scapa Flow 100 years ago. The scheme has been started by the great niece of a ...

The dreadnought battleship, ... "They offer the opportunity to remember the sinking of HMS Vanguard and the terrible loss of life in Scapa Flow on that July day 100 years ago.