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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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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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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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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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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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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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still...
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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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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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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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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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Alastair Ewing (category 1909 births)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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ship (HMCS Ojibwa (S72) and HMCS Onondaga (S73)) and 3 scrapped (HMS Olympus (S12), HMS Osiris (S13), HMCS Okanagan (S74)) Tench-class submarine (decommissioned);...
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Miller and the Theseus were assigned to sail under Nelson, by now aboard HMS Vanguard. Miller was therefore present at the Battle of the Nile on 1 August,...
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spares for the Queen Elizabeth class to arm the last British battleship, HMS Vanguard. Some World War II-era designs were drawn up proposing another move towards...
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HMS Bulwark was one of five London-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy at the end of the 19th century. The Londons were a sub-class...
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