What You Need to Know: HMS Vanguard, Britain’s last battleship, was laid down in 1941 amid shifting naval tactics favoring aircraft carriers over traditional battleships. Despite being completed ...

Summary: The HMS Vanguard, the Royal Navy’s last battleship, was conceptualized to counteract potential naval inferiority against German and Japanese forces during World War II. Initially part ...

It had lain underwater after accidental magazine explosions sank the battleship HMS Vanguard at Scapa Flow in 1917.

The battleship eventually surrendered its naval preeminence to aircraft carriers and amphibious warships after World War II. The United Kingdom’s HMS Vanguard, commissioned in 1946, was the last ...

BARROW, England, Feb. 22.—The battleship Vanguard, the seventh vessel of the Dreadnought class, was successfully launched here at noon to-day, Mrs. Reginald McKenna, wife of the First Lord of ...

Great Britain's HMS Vanguard wasn't necessarily a bad battleship. There was some design choices that other countries might have done differently — Vanguard was built with 15-inch guns while U.S ...

Call of Duty: Vanguard will be getting a whole host of new content alongside Warzone when Season 4 kicks off on June 22.

It was 56 years ago this week that the headquarters of the Royal Navy came within 15 minutes of being the graveyard of mighty battleship HMS Vanguard.