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    HMS Vanguard was one of three St Vincent-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She spent her...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    HMS Neptune was a dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century, the sole ship of her class. She was the first...
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    2003, p. 115. "People associated with HMS Vanguard". scapaflowwrecks.com. Scapa Flow Wrecks. "History of HMS Vanguard". scapaflowwrecks.com. Scapa Flow Wrecks...
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  • to the battleship HMS Majestic in 1895. He was promoted to the rank of commander in 1899, and was in command of the destroyer HMS Cygnet in the Medway...
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    Images of HMS Vanguard Wreck". Express Newspapers. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017. Historic Environment Scotland. "HMS Vanguard: Scapa Flow...
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  • SS Avila (1926) HMS Avon Vale (L06) HMS Bacchante (1901) HMS Barham (04) HMS Barrosa (D68) PS Barry (1907) HMS Basilisk (H11) SS Bata (1919) HMS Beagle (1909) HMS Beagle (H30)...
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    58°51′24″N 3°06′22″W / 58.8566°N 3.1062°W / 58.8566; -3.1062 (HMS Vanguard (1909)) Varyag  Imperial Russian Navy 1925 A Russian protected cruiser that...
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    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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    Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Sub-Lieutenant Gerald Y. Harrison (1897–1917), HMS Vanguard (1909) Ordinary Seaman Leonard W. Ellis (1900–1918), Royal Naval Reserve...
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    NATO Standing Group Staff in 1950 and took command of the battleship HMS Vanguard in 1953 before becoming Director at the Naval Staff College at Greenwich...
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    called Vanguard. Recent publications state that the inspiration for the name of the village came from HMS Vanguard which was commissioned in 1909 and exploded...
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  • Vigil HMS Archer HMS Audacious USS Delaware Mhairi Finnea  – Scottish fishing trawler HMS Riffa HMS Vanguard  – British Vanguard-class submarine HMS Vanquish...
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    British Admiral HMS Dreadnought HMS Invincible HMS Sheffield HMS Ocean Winston Churchill HMS Indomitable Princess Diana HMS Vanguard Queen Elizabeth The...
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    Training and Administration at HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs), which was transferred from 1 June 1944 to HMS Faraway, a training establishment...
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    HMS Bellerophon was the lead ship of her class of three dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She...
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    HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy battleship, the design of which revolutionised naval power. The ship's entry into service in 1906 represented such an...
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    River-class vessel, HMS Clyde, was decommissioned, with the Batch 2 HMS Forth taking over duties as the Falkland Islands patrol ship. HMS Protector is a dedicated...
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    ship 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...
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    HMS Temeraire was one of three Bellerophon-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She spent almost...
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    orders from King Dingane on 6 February 1838. By the middle of 1837 the vanguard of the Great Trek had reached the Drakensberg. Piet Retief and a few of...
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    promised the 80-gun HMS Foudroyant. As she was not yet ready for sea, Nelson was instead given command of the 74-gun HMS Vanguard, to which he appointed...
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  • 1908 Jubilee Bridge is opened. Barrow Park created. 1909 Brazilian battleship São Paulo and HMS Vanguard are launched 1911 - The Mayfly airship disaster 1912...
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    were accidentally sunk by them – for example HMS Vanguard by HMS Iron Duke in 1875, and HMS Victoria by HMS Camperdown in 1893. Whilst this showed the considerable...
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    required"). HMS Northumberland HMS Richmond HMS Portland HMS Somerset HMS Kent HMS Sutherland (currently completing LIFEX refit as of March 2024) HMS St Albans...
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    was Second-in-Command of the Home Fleet, with his flag in the battleship HMS Empress of India, at this time. In May 1903 Noel was succeeded as Commander-in-Chief...
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    SS Otway (redirect from HMS Otway (1909))
    Engineering Company of Glasgow, Scotland, launched in 1908 and completed in 1909. She was one of five sister ships, along with Orsova, Osterley, Otranto and...
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    HMS Superb was one of three Bellerophon-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She spent almost...
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    HMS Illustrious was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy before World War II. Her first assignment after completion...
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