What You Need to Know: HMS Vanguard, Britain’s last battleship, was laid down in 1941 amid shifting naval tactics favoring aircraft carriers over traditional battleships. Despite being completed in ...

HMS Vanguard was conceived in 1941 as a fast capital ship that could keep up with carriers and fight heavy surface threats, ...

The idea for the HMS Vanguard came in response to a strategic assessment that by the early 1940s, the Royal Navy would be outnumbered in battleships by the German Kriegsmarine and Japanese Imperial ...

Prior to the Second World War, the Royal Navy had been able to maintain its dominance over rival navies both in sheer numbers, but also in having the most advanced warships of the era. It was a ...

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 over ...

A bell from a World War One battleship - which sank with the loss of hundreds of lives in Scapa Flow in Orkney over a century ago - has been recovered by divers. Two other artefacts from HMS Vanguard ...