HMS VANGUARD IN DOCK 38

HMS VANGUARD A BRITISH BATTLESHIP 1946

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF THE MIDSHIPS SECTION CLOSE UP ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Operators: Royal Navy
Preceded by: Lion class
Succeeded by: None
Built: 1941–46
In commission: 1946–60
Completed: 1
Scrapped: 1

History

United Kingdom
Name: HMS Vanguard
Ordered: 14 March 1941 (1940 Emergency War Programme)
Builder: John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland
Cost: £11,530,503
Yard number: 567
Laid down: 2 October 1941
Launched: 30 November 1944
Commissioned: 12 May 1946
Decommissioned: 7 June 1960

Identification: Pennant number: 23

Motto: We Lead

Fate: Scrapped 1960

Badge: On a field blue, issuing from barry of four white and green a demi-lion gold supporting a spear issuing white

General characteristics (as completed)

Type: Fast battleship

Displacement:

44,500 long tons (45,200 t) (standard)
51,420 long tons (52,250 t) (deep load)

Length: 814 ft 4 in (248.2 m)
Beam: 108 ft (32.9 m)
Draught: 36 ft (11.0 m) (deep load)

Installed power:

130,000 shp (97,000 kW)

8 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Propulsion: 4 shafts; 4 steam turbine sets

Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)

Range: 8,250 nautical miles (15,280 km; 9,490 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)

Complement: 1,975

Sensors and
processing systems:

1 × Type 960 air-warning radar
1 × Type 293 target-indication radar
1 × Type 277 height-finding radar
2 × Type 274 15-inch fire-control radar
4 × Type 275 5.25-inch fire-control radar
11 × Type 262 40 mm fire-control radar

Armament:

4 × twin BL 15-inch (381 mm) guns
8 × twin QF 5.25-inch (133 mm) dual-purpose guns
10 × sextuple, 1 × twin, 11 × single 40 mm Bofors AA guns

Armour:

Belt: 4.5–14 in (114–356 mm)
Deck: 2.5–6 in (64–152 mm)
Barbettes: 11–13 in (279–330 mm)
Gun turrets: 7–13 in (178–330 mm)
Conning tower: 2–3 in (51–76 mm)
Bulkheads: 4–12 in (102–305 mm)

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