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HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of the Royal Navy's battleships, [3] and the only ship of her class.
HMS Royal Sovereign, upon which the design for the Majestic class was based In 1891, Rear Admiral Jackie Fisher, then the Controller of the Royal Navy, issued a request for a new battleship design based on the Royal Sovereign class, but that incorporated a recently designed 12 in (305 mm) gun and Harvey armour, which was significantly stronger than compound armour.
British Battleships, Warrior 1860 to Vanguard 1950: A History of Design, Construction, and Armament (New & rev. ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-075-4. Pemsel, Helmut (1977). A History of War at Sea: An Atlas and Chronology of Conflict at Sea from Earliest Times to the Present. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute ...
The ship's essential design became the standard for most of the following British battleships. Completed in 1887, she spent the next two years in reserve before she was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet for the next eight years. After returning home in 1897, the ship spent the next six years as a guardship in Ireland.
A History of Design, Construction and Armament was published in 1957. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He had begun work on it in 1925, [ 16 ] [ 30 ] completing it in June 1956. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] British naval architect David K. Brown said about the book that it was "The first serious historical study of British capital ships , in great detail and showing real insight".
The four N3 battleships were never ordered because the Washington Naval Treaty, an arms limitation treaty under negotiation at the time, forbade construction of any ship larger than 35,000 tons. Many of the aspects of their design ultimately were incorporated into the two Nelson-class battleships, and they are often described as being a cut ...
The design of the Bellerophon class was derived from that of the revolutionary [Note 1] battleship HMS Dreadnought, with a slight increase in size, armour and a more powerful secondary armament. [2] Bellerophon had an overall length of 526 feet (160.3 m), a beam of 82 feet 6 inches (25.1 m), and a normal draught of 27 feet (8.2 m). [ 3 ]
British Battleships, Warrior 1860 to Vanguard 1950: A History of Design, Construction, and Armament (New & rev. ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-075-4. Preston, Antony (1972). Battleships of World War I: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Battleships of All Nations 1914–1918. New York: Galahad Books. ISBN 0-88365 ...