The idea for the HMS Vanguard came in response to a strategic assessment that by the early 1940s, the Royal Navy would be outnumbered in battleships by the German Kriegsmarine and Japanese ...

When the British Royal Navy battleship HMS Vanguard was laid down in 1941, battleships were already on the wane. Aircraft ...

There were calls by some in her crew for HMS Vanguard to be saved as a museum ship, the last of her kind. Instead, she met the same ignominious end of too many great warships – she was sold for ...

When HMS Vanguard was completed, the age of the battleship was already fading—submarines, aircraft, and long-range missiles had made such colossal warships nearly obsolete. Despite this ...

They worked four hours on, eight off with two hours at the wheel. On August 4, 1960, the redundant battleship HMS Vanguard was to be towed from Portsmouth Dockyard to Faslane in Scotland to be ...

In May 1946 she came north to the John Brown’s yard at Clydebank bearing the engraving, which she presented to the newest HMS Vanguard - “the world’s greatest battleship”, in the words of ...

Commemorations will be held this summer to mark the huge of loss of life caused when a Royal Navy battleship was blown ... internal explosions destroyed HMS Vanguard on the night of 9 July 1917.

A project has begun to find photos of more than 840 men and boys who died when HMS Vanguard exploded ... Built in 1909, Vanguard was the eighth ship to bear the name and was one of the new ...

LONDON — The first of the Royal Navy’s future ballistic nuclear missile submarines will be known as HMS Dreadnought ... for the lead ship. Due to replace the existing Vanguard-class SSBNs ...