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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 Vanguard (1678) was a 90-gun three-decker second-rate launched in 1678, sunk in 1703 but raised in 1704, rebuilt twice and renamed HMS Duke in 1728. She was broken up in 1769. HMS Vanguard (1748) was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1748 and sold in 1774. HMS Vanguard (1780) was a 4-gun gunvessel captured in 1780, purchased in 1781 and sold ...
The eleventh HMS Vanguard of the Royal Navy is the lead boat of her class of Trident ballistic missile-armed submarines. [1] [2] The submarine is based at Faslane, ...
Vanguard, 1910 History United Kingdom Name Vanguard Ordered 6 February 1908 Builder Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness Laid down 2 April 1908 Launched 22 February 1909 Commissioned 1 March 1910 Fate Sunk by internal explosion at Scapa Flow, 9 July 1917 Notes Protected war grave General characteristics (as built) Class and type St Vincent -class dreadnought battleship Displacement 19,700 long tons ...
[15] [14] The same oil sprayers and burners were used in HMS Vanguard along with other detail improvements so that Vanguard achieved a full-power specific fuel consumption of 0.63 lb per shp while using the same steam pressures and temperatures as used on the King George V class. [16] [17]
The freeboard forward was increased by nearly 9 feet (2.7 m), [18] and the radar suite was increased to match that of the battleship Vanguard, then under construction. Because the light cruiser Belfast lost all steam power when she struck a mine early in the war, two diesel generators were substituted for two turbo-generators .
Seas break over the bow of HMS Vanguard making a high speed run. Eighty thousand men, over 200 ships, and 1,000 aircraft participated in Mainbrace. The New York Times ' military reporter Hanson W. Baldwin described this NATO naval force as being the "largest and most powerful fleet that has cruised in the North Sea since World War I." [12] [13]
The eighth HMS Vanguard of the British Royal Navy was an Audacious-class central battery ironclad battleship, by Edward Reed launched in 1870. In 1875, the ship was sunk during a summer cruise in a collision in fog with the ironclad HMS Iron Duke.