HMS Vanguard (23)
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hms-vanguard-23-203-16733771
title:
HMS Vanguard (23)
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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, and the only ship of her class. Vanguard was the last battleship to be built in history. The Royal Navy anticipated being outnumbered by the combined German and Japanese battleships in the early 1940s, and had therefore started building the Lion-class battleships. However, the time-consuming construction of the triple-
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Fast British battleship
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vanguard_(23)
date created:
2004-04-30T08:29:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:32:13Z
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