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

The HMS Vanguard is the last battleship ever built. It features tanky armor, 15-inch guns, and advanced air defenses that include radar and remote-controlled gun systems. There’s also South Africa’s ...

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 ...

Across the pond, it took a bit more time as the British HMS Vanguard, another type of battleship, was commissioned in 1946, as armored as its predecessors.

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, the ...

Michela Tindera talks to Brooke MastersThis is an audio transcript of the Behind the Money podcast episode: ‘Vanguard — can it keep playing disruptor?’ Michela Tindera Naming your company ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the close of World War II, Britain launched its last battleship, HMS Vanguard, a vessel which encapsulated the zenith of naval power and yet, by the time of its commissioning on 25 April 1946, was ...

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 ...