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The British Battleship HMS Vanguard (Paperback)
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The British Battleship HMS Vanguard (Paperback)
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The British battleship HMS "Vanguard" was built in the years
1941-1946 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank. It
was quite an unusual ship due to the fact that it was built as the
largest and also the last of the British battleships, and armed
with artillery towers stored since 1925, taken from the cruisers
HMS "Courageous" and HMS "Glorious". It is widely regarded as
Britain's best designed battleship, well-armed but also least
needed. Design work began before World War II and was completed a
year after its end, making it one of the longest-built ships in
history. Her service, however, was quite short and lacking of
interesting events. The unit was launched in 1944, and it entered
service only two years later, so it did not have the opportunity to
take part in World War II. The first major event in the history of
the ship was the three-month journey to the British dominion of the
Union of South Africa with George VI, Queen Mary and both
daughters, Princess Elizabeth and Anne, on board between February
and May 1947.
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