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...
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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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RNAS Rattray (redirect from HMS Merganser)
Scotland. 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2018. McCart, Neil (2001). HMS Vanguard 1944–1960: Britain's Last Battleship. Liskeard, Cornwall: Maritime Books...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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’...
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"History". RAF Lossiemouth. Retrieved 23 May 2014. McCart, Neil (2001). HMS Vanguard 1944–1960: Britain's Last Battleship. Liskeard, Cornwall: Maritime Books...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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HMS Seraph (Pennant number: P219) was an S-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Completed in 1942, she carried out multiple...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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effective high-altitude AA weapons. HMS Royalist was rebuilt for potential action alongside the battleship HMS Vanguard against the post-war Soviet Sverdlov-class...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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inshore minesweeper, portrayed by HMS Reedham) Vigil (Vanguard-class submarine from the BBC drama Vigil) Virtue (Vanguard-class submarine mentioned in the...
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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...
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on 25 February 1947. Brown, DK Nelson to Vanguard p107 Mason, Geoffrey B. (2004). Gordon Smith (ed.). "HMS Wensleydale (L 86) - Type 2, Hunt-class Escort...
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(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...
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Flower-class corvette (redirect from HMS Gloriosa)
Lambert and Brown 2008, p. 65. HMS Arbutus (K 86) (British Corvette) – Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII – uboat.net HMS Asphodel (K 56) (British Corvette)...
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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...
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Agnew was given command of HMS Excellent, the Royal Navy's gunnery school in 1943. In 1946 he was given command of HMS Vanguard, remained aboard her after...
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