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...

the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vanguard, meaning the forefront of an action or movement: English ship Vanguard (1586) was a 31-gun galleon launched...

Scotland. 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2018. McCart, Neil (2001). HMS Vanguard 1944–1960: Britain's Last Battleship. Liskeard, Cornwall: Maritime Books...

scrapped in 1957 and Vanguard followed in 1960. All other surviving British battleships had been sold or broken up by 1949. HMS Dreadnought was the first...

78-gun third rate launched in 1835 as HMS Vanguard. She was renamed HMS Ajax in 1867 and was broken up in 1875. HMS Ajax (1880) was an Ajax-class ironclad...

"History". RAF Lossiemouth. Retrieved 23 May 2014. McCart, Neil (2001). HMS Vanguard 1944–1960: Britain's Last Battleship. Liskeard, Cornwall: Maritime Books...

and was sold to Brazil in 1956 and renamed Minas Gerais. HMS Vengeance (S31) is a Vanguard-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine launched in 1998...

(SSBN), of the Vanguard class. All of these submarines are nuclear powered. The Royal Navy's senior submariner was for many years located at HMS Dolphin in...

generations. The name of the Standard Vanguard recalled HMS Vanguard, the last of the Royal Navy's battleships, launched in 1944 amid much media attention; permission...

HMS Boxer was built as a Landing Ship, Tank (LST(1)) at Harland and Wolff. Launched in December 1942 and commissioned the following April, she saw service...

following is a list of all the ships she named during her lifetime, from HMS Vanguard to the Britannia. Princess Elizabeth launching the tanker ‘British Princess’...

HMS Anson was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after Admiral George Anson. She was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson...

HMS Upshot, HMS Urtica, HMS Vagabond, HMS Variance, HMS Venturer, HMS Vigorous, HMS Viking, HMS Vampire, HMS Varne II, HMS Veldt, HMS Vineyard, HMS Virtue...

aircraft. In 1951, Indomitable replaced the Royal Navy's last battleship, HMS Vanguard, as the Home Fleet flagship. On 3 February 1953, she was badly damaged...

Classes. New Vanguard. Vol. 160. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-389-6. Mason, Lt. Cdr. Geoffrey B., RN (Rtd) (2003). "HMS Howe". Service...

HMS Malaya was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. Shortly after commissioning in early 1916, she...

HMS Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers and the Fleet Flagship of the Royal Navy. Capable of carrying 60...

HMS Ocean was a Royal Navy Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carrier of 13,190 tons built in Glasgow by Alexander Stephen & Sons. Her keel was laid...

January 2008. HMS Roberts suffered in the same way. The fault was traced to defective fuses in some US-built shells The 15 inch Guns of HMS Vanguard Brown, David...

HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in...

replace the Mk I mountings on HMS Anson. The last of the Royal Navy's battleships which was commissioned after the war, HMS Vanguard, had MK I turrets with enlarged...

inshore minesweeper, portrayed by HMS Reedham) Vigil (Vanguard-class submarine from the BBC drama Vigil) Virtue (Vanguard-class submarine mentioned in the...

boats, 1917–1918 Nautilus class — 1 boat, 1917 R class — 12 boats, 1918 HMS X1 — 1 boat, 1921 Odin class — 9 boats 1926–29 (subclasses Oberon 1 boat...

effective high-altitude AA weapons. HMS Royalist was rebuilt for potential action alongside the battleship HMS Vanguard against the post-war Soviet Sverdlov-class...

(102 mm) deck gun. HMS Spearhead was laid down at Cammell Laird's Birkenhead shipyard on 18 August 1943, was launched on 2 October 1944 and completed on...

HMS Warrior was a Colossus-class light aircraft carrier which was ordered in 1942 by the British Royal Navy during World War II. Construction was finished...

HMS Spark (pennant number P236) was a S-class submarine of the third batch built for the Royal Navy during World War II. She survived the war and was...

HMS Taku was a British T class submarine built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. She was laid down on 18 November 1937 and was commissioned on 3 October 1940...

during World War II, with the last battleship to be launched being HMS Vanguard in 1944. Four battleships were retained by the United States Navy until the...

constituted as follows: HMS Marlborough HMS Collingwood HMS Colossus HMS Hercules HMS Neptune HMS St. Vincent HMS Superb HMS Vanguard During the Battle of...