Ultimately, HMS Vanguard was commissioned in 1946, a year after WWII had ended. What makes the Vanguard so memorable for the British is the fact that she was the last official battleship the Royal ...

Despite its battle chunk, the HMS Vanguard could reach speeds of 30 nautical knots (35 miles per hour). With a complement of almost 2,000 officers and enlisted men, the battleship was ready for ...

Two other artefacts from HMS Vanguard - a metal badge from one of the the main guns and a protective plug from a gun barrel, known as a tampion - have also been brought to the surface.

Vanguard started its three-year Long Overhaul Period (Refuel) – (LOP [R]) – at Babcock International's Devonport facility in Plymouth in December 2015, but the project has experienced ...

HMS Vanguard, the Royal Navy’s last battleship, will be the star of the next major Azur Lane event. She will have the highest Ultra Rare grade, and Commanders will be able to find her in the ...

Scotland Now Ambarish Awale 16:11, 07 Jul 2025 HMS Vanguard exploded and sank at Scapa Flow on July 9, 1917, claiming hundreds of lives (Image: Charles Dixon/Fine Art Photographic/Getty Images) ...

A Trident II D5 missile breaks the surface of the water having been fired from HMS Vanguard, a British strategic missile submarine. More recent tests didn't go so well. (British Defence Ministry ...

HMS Vanguard's bell was recovered by a team of divers after 108 years on the seabed A bell from a World War One battleship - which sank with the loss of hundreds of lives in Scapa Flow in Orkney ...