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|align="center" colspan="2"|'''HMS ''Vanguard'''''
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!style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career
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!style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Details
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|Pendant Number:
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|39 (September, 1915)
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|Builder:
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|[[Vickers, Limited, Barrow-in-Furness]]
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|Ordered:
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|1907
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|Laid down:
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|2 April, 1908
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|Launched:
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|22 February, 1909
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|Commissioned:
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|1 March, 1910
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|Lost:
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|9 July, 1917
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|Fate:
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|Sunk by internal explosion
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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy  no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics
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|Displacement:
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|19,500 tons (normal)<br> 21,060 (normal, 1917)
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|Length:
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|500 feet
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|Beam:
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|84 feet
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|Draught:
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|28 feet 7 inches
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|Propulsion:
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|2 Screw Parsons Turbines, 24,500 shp.  18 Babcock boilers
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|Speed:
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|21 knots
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|Range:
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|6,900 miles at 10 knots
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|Complement:
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|758
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|Armament:
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*10 x BL 12"/50 BXI-BXII gunes in five twin Mark BXI mountings
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*18 x BL 4"/50 Mark VII guns in single mountings
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'''HMS ''Vanguard''''' (ex-''Rodney'') was a [[HMS St. Vincent Class (1908)|''St. Vincent'']] class dreadnought, built at Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness.  Laid down in mid-1908, she completed in early 1910, joining the [[British 1st Battle Squadron|1st Battle Squadron]].  She would serve with this squadron until April, 1916.  At the outbreak of war, two 4" turrets on '''A''' turret were removed.  On 1 September, 1914 she fired on a suspected enemy submarine at [[Scapa Flow]] in a case of friendly fire.
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At the [[Battle of Jutland]] ''Vanguard'' was in the 4th Division of the [[British 4th Battle Squadron|4th Battle Squadron]] in company with the C-in-C, [[John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe|Admiral Sir John Jellicoe]] and [[Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet|Vice-Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee]].  She fired eighty 12" rounds without suffering damage.
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Revision as of 20:41, 26 January 2007

HMS Vanguard
Career Details
Pendant Number: 39 (September, 1915)
Builder: Vickers, Limited, Barrow-in-Furness
Ordered: 1907
Laid down: 2 April, 1908
Launched: 22 February, 1909
Commissioned: 1 March, 1910
Lost: 9 July, 1917
Fate: Sunk by internal explosion
General Characteristics
Displacement: 19,500 tons (normal)
21,060 (normal, 1917)
Length: 500 feet
Beam: 84 feet
Draught: 28 feet 7 inches
Propulsion: 2 Screw Parsons Turbines, 24,500 shp. 18 Babcock boilers
Speed: 21 knots
Range: 6,900 miles at 10 knots
Complement: 758
Armament:
  • 10 x BL 12"/50 BXI-BXII gunes in five twin Mark BXI mountings
  • 18 x BL 4"/50 Mark VII guns in single mountings

HMS Vanguard (ex-Rodney) was a St. Vincent class dreadnought, built at Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness. Laid down in mid-1908, she completed in early 1910, joining the 1st Battle Squadron. She would serve with this squadron until April, 1916. At the outbreak of war, two 4" turrets on A turret were removed. On 1 September, 1914 she fired on a suspected enemy submarine at Scapa Flow in a case of friendly fire.

At the Battle of Jutland Vanguard was in the 4th Division of the 4th Battle Squadron in company with the C-in-C, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe and Vice-Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee. She fired eighty 12" rounds without suffering damage.

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