HMS Vanguard was laid down in 1941 and commissioned on August 9, 1946 — after the war she was built for had already ended. At 814 feet, 30 knots, and armed with 97 guns, including four twin 15-inch ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Vanguard was an idiosyncratic curiosity, but would have filled its role effectively if it had been completed in time. The conversions left four twin fifteen-inch turrets ...