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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...
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  • the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vanguard, meaning the forefront of an action or movement: English ship Vanguard (1586) was a 31-gun galleon launched...
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    RNAS Rattray (redirect from HMS Merganser)
    Scotland. 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2018. McCart, Neil (2001). HMS Vanguard 1944–1960: Britain's Last Battleship. Liskeard, Cornwall: Maritime Books...
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    scrapped in 1957 and Vanguard followed in 1960. All other surviving British battleships had been sold or broken up by 1949. HMS Dreadnought was the first...
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  • 78-gun third rate launched in 1835 as HMS Vanguard. She was renamed HMS Ajax in 1867 and was broken up in 1875. HMS Ajax (1880) was an Ajax-class ironclad...
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    generations. The name of the Standard Vanguard recalled HMS Vanguard, the last of the Royal Navy's battleships, launched in 1944 amid much media attention; permission...
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  • and was sold to Brazil in 1956 and renamed Minas Gerais. HMS Vengeance (S31) is a Vanguard-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine launched in 1998...
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    years located at HMS Dolphin in Hampshire. It moved from Dolphin to the Northwood Headquarters in 1978. The Submarine School is now at HMS Raleigh at Torpoint...
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  • "History". RAF Lossiemouth. Retrieved 23 May 2014. McCart, Neil (2001). HMS Vanguard 1944–1960: Britain's Last Battleship. Liskeard, Cornwall: Maritime Books...
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    following is a list of all the ships she named during her lifetime, from HMS Vanguard to the Britannia. Princess Elizabeth launching the tanker ‘British Princess’...
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