Summary: The HMS Vanguard, the Royal Navy’s last battleship, was conceptualized to counteract potential naval inferiority against German and Japanese forces during World War II. Initially part ...

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 ...

It had lain underwater after accidental magazine explosions sank the battleship HMS Vanguard at Scapa Flow in 1917.

The incident happened onboard HMS Vanguard, the flagship Vanguard-class submarine of the Royal Navy, which is equipped with the Trident ballistic missile system, the country’s deterrent.

HMS Vanguard had been due for a three and a half year refit which turned into seven and a half years A nuclear submarine has left Devonport dockyard after a seven and a half year refit. The 492ft ...

Lengthy delays to the refit of HMS Vanguard and a fire on board HMS Victorious have exposed vulnerabilities in the UK's continuous at-sea deterrent (CASD).

THE Royal Navy is due to test fire a nuclear weapon within days. Officials issued a warning to shipping as nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard sailed into the Atlantic this week. It is the first time th… ...

HMS Vanguard completes £500m Devonport dockyard refit after three-year delay Nuclear submarine was bedevilled by problems including a reported superglue repair which went wrong News By ...

The prime culprit for the extra-long patrols is the class’s lead ship HMS Vanguard. In 2012, the Royal Navy discovered that the Vanguard’s reactor was leaking radiation into coolant water.

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 ...