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HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of the Royal Navy 's battleships , [ 3 ] and the only ship of her class .
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.
HMS Vanguard (1780) was a 4-gun gunvessel captured in 1780, purchased in 1781 and sold in 1783. HMS Vanguard (1787) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1787. She became a prison ship in 1812, a powder hulk in 1814 and was broken up in 1821. HMS Vanguard (1835) was a 78-gun third rate launched in 1835, renamed HMS Ajax in 1867, and broken up in ...
In the night between 3–4 February 2009, Le Triomphant collided with the Royal Navy submarine HMS Vanguard in the Atlantic. [ 2 ] [ 10 ] Both vessels returned to home bases under their own power, Vanguard to Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde in the Firth of Clyde on 14 February 2009, and Le Triomphant to Île Longue in Brittany , escorted by a ...
Merchantmen or warships have occasionally been chartered or assigned for special duty as a temporary royal yacht, for example the steamship Ophir in 1901 and the battleship HMS Vanguard in 1947. [citation needed] Since 1998, following a successful national tender process, Britannia has been berthed permanently at the Port of Leith in Edinburgh. [1]
HMS Vanguard was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched in 1678. [ 1 ] She ran onto Goodwin Sands in 1690, but was fortunate enough to be hauled off by the boatmen of Deal .
HMS Vanguard was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 April 1748. [1] She was built by Philemon Ewer at his East Cowes yard on the Isle of Wight to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, [1] at a cost of £8,009. She was the fourth vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name Vanguard.
Vanguard-class ship of the line, UK Royal Navy 19th-century second rate tall ship class; Vanguard-class battleship, UK Royal Navy World War II era super-battleship class; Vanguard-class submarine, UK Royal Navy post-Cold-War era ballistic missile submarine class; Vanguard-class multirole warship, Royal Norwegian Navy cancelled proposed ship class