Ultimately, HMS Vanguard was commissioned in 1946, a year after WWII had ended. What makes the Vanguard so memorable for the ...

Deep beneath the surface of the Atlantic, HMS Vanguard — one of four identical ... He knows what his job is: to be Britain’s very last line of defence. And he has no doubt what he would ...

The ninth HMS Vanguard was the last and largest of Britain’s battleships and was commissioned in 1946. She was 813ft length overall and 42,300 tons and built for the Royal Navy during the Second ...

Even Charles Darwin, whose own trailblazing voyage on HMS Beagle had taken place around 40 years earlier, had referred to the oceans as “a tedious waste, a desert of water”. LeeYiuTung/Getty ...

The view from Gosport as HMS Vanguard slips away on her final voyage. Picture ... My article on Leading Aircraftman Walker last week also drew comment from Tim, who tells me the following ...

HMS Courageous and HMS Glorious would each carry ... Displacing 44,500 tons (standard) and capable of thirty knots, Vanguard was the largest battleship ever built by the Royal Navy, and was ...

HMS Vanguard, like her sister ships, features U.S.-made Trident missiles, which can be fired upon targets up to 4,000 miles away. Additionally, the Vanguard nuclear powered submarines (SSBNs) can ...

HMS Illustrious just made its final voyage out of Portsmouth harbour. The ship is bound for Turkey where it has been sold to a recycling plant for £2.1 million. HMS Illustrious was put into ...

HMS CARDIFF was towed to Turkey to be scrapped just a day after her replacement was launched, it emerged last night. The Type 42 destroyer made her final voyage yesterday afternoon, less than 24 ...