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	hms vanguard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The third HMS Vanguard, 90, was a three-decker second-rate built in Portsmouth and launched in 1678.
		Vanguard was wrecked in a gale during November 1703.
		Vanguard was renamed Ajax in 1867, to allow her former name to be given to an ironclad battleship then being laid down in the ways.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /hms_vanguard.html (1107 words)

	HMS Vanguard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second Vanguard was a 56-gun second-rate launched in 1631, active in the Anglo-Dutch Wars, and scuttled in 1667.
		The third Vanguard was a 90-gun three-decker second-rate launched in 1678 and wrecked in 1703.
		The seventh Vanguard was an ironclad battleship of 1869, wrecked in a collision in 1875.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Vanguard (255 words)

	HMS Vanguard (1944) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		HMS Vanguard was a modified (additional info and facts about King George V class) King George V class (Large and heavily armoured warship) battleship of the (additional info and facts about Royal Navy) Royal Navy.
		Vanguard was laid down in 1941, and her hull was launched in November 1944; the ship was not however (additional info and facts about commissioned) commissioned until 1946, and became known as the only British battleship never to fire her guns in anger.
		Vanguard was unique among British battleships in having (A device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance) remote control for both main and secondary guns.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hm/hms_vanguard_(1944)2.htm (331 words)

	Naval Prints , HMS Vanguard
		HMS Vanguard was the last of the great Royal navy battleships, built at Clydebank, she was launched on the 30th November 1944, and did not see service during world War Two, She was the biggest British battleship with a displacement of 42.500 tons.
		HMS Vanguard was refitted in 1947 - 1948 and went to the Mediterranean in 1949 for six months.
		HMS Vanguard (the eighth Vanguard) Built by Vickers at barrow and launched in April 1909 and joined the Royal Navy at Devonport in October 1910.
	www.naval-art.com /vanguard.htm (947 words)

	HMS Vanguard (1909) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The eighth HMS Vanguard of the British Royal Navy was a St Vincent class battleship, an enhancement of the "dreadnought" design built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness.
		Just before midnight on Monday, July 9, 1917, Vanguard suffered an explosion in one of the two magazines which served the amidships turrets P and Q. She sank almost instantly, killing 677 men.
		See HMS Vanguard for other ships of this name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Vanguard_(1909) (209 words)

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		HMS Orlando was anchored in Tunis Bay 3rd November 1864.
		He was a Lieutenant (HMS Active) at the destruction of a Turkish squadron in the Dardanelles in 1807; served on HMS Spartan, in boat actions in the Adriatic, and at the reduction of Zante and neighbouring islands.
		The coffin was carried by the crewmen of the Vanguard.
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	Western Front Association Contributed Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		August 1914, HMS Dreadnought was the flagship of the Fourth Battle Squadron of the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet.
		HMS Lion was disabled and the German battlecruisers Seydlitz and Blucher were respectively damaged and sunk.
		HMS Warspite — one of the British dreadnoughts — was hit and its rudder jammed forcing it to turn in circles.
	www.westernfront.co.uk /thegreatwar/articles/factsandfigures/dreadnoughts.htm (2291 words)

	EighthVanguard
		The eighth HMS Vanguard was the victim of an internal explosion.
		Her magazine was detonated by unstable cordite and within seconds the battleship was annihilated together with all but three of her 800 crew and officers.
		HMS Vanguard displaced nearly 20000 tons and was 536 feet long.
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	HMS NELSON BATTLESHIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		HMS REVENGE 1915 REVENGE / ROYAL SOVEREIGN CLASS
		HMS ROYAL OAK 1914 REVENGE / ROYAL SOVEREIGN CLASS
		HMS SIR THOMAS PICTON 1915 LORD CLIVE CLASS
	www.homestead.com /nelson1/BRITISHBATTLESHIPS.html (77 words)

	Bellerophon Class Battleship - HMS St Vincent, Vanguard, Collingwood
		HMS St Vincent the third and final class of the basic Dreadnought layout.
		One of the problems during this period was that a new class could be designed before the previous class had entered service so that problems with a previous design may not have been learnt yet.
		The improved main armament guns were a disappointment as the higher velocities led to greater barrel wear and there was greater dispersion (spread) of the shells.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /battleship/hms-st-vincent.html (276 words)

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		HMS HOOD - The ship was the last battlecruiser to be completed for the Royal Navy and, as such, she was considered by the British public to be all that was finest in the British fleet and because of this her loss caused considerable shock.
		HMS IRON DUKE - Flagship of the Grand Fleet (Jellicoe) 1914, she fought at Jutland 1916 and was in the Mediterranean in 1919, Atlantic 1926.
		HMS VICTORIA - This ship was the Flagship of Admiral Tryon which with the rest of the fleet was manoeuvring off the Syrian Coast on 22nd June 1893 when a collision occurred in which the CAMPERDOWN rammed her, causing her to sink.
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	HMS Dreadnought
		HMS Dreadnaught was the flagship of the the 4th battle squadron at the outbreak of world war One and on the 18th March 1915 she rammed and sunk the German U-Boat U29in the North Sea.
		HMS Dreadnaught missed the Battle of Jutland as she was in refit due to her poor condition and in August 1917 she was transferred to the Navy Reserve.
		This vessel represented an important departure from the comtemporary battleship design, and as she was the first vessel of the twentieth century to embody the all-big-gun principle, as well as to be fitted with turbine machinery, much attention was concentrated upon her trials and subsequent behaviour.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /dreadnought.htm (1289 words)

	Battle of Jutland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		By this time, however, Jellicoe had been promoted to First Sea Lord and Beatty to command of the Grand Fleet; the report, which indirectly placed part of the blame for the disaster on the fleet's officers, was suppressed.
		HMS Superb (Flagship of Rear Admiral A.L. Duff; Capt. E.
		HMS Minotaur (Flagship of Rear Admiral H.L. Heath; Capt. A.C.S.H. D'Aeth)
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	HMS Vanguard - TheBestLinks.com - Battleship, Royal Navy, Ship, World War I, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		HMS Vanguard - TheBestLinks.com - Battleship, Royal Navy, Ship, World War I,...
		HMS Vanguard, Battleship, Royal Navy, Ship, World War I, 1909, 1917, 1946, 1787...
		This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.thebestlinks.com /HMS_Vanguard.html (310 words)

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		HMS Relentless, HMS Repulse, HMS Resolution; fine names, names to gladden the heart of every true Brit and dismay any foreigners with a grasp of English.
		My first assumption was that these names had been chosen by some fresh faced innocent unaware of their connotations, but a careful reading of the index suggested that the choice of such names was deliberate and malicious.
		But it is hard not to imagine the crew of HMS Narcissus leaning over the side to admire their reflections in the water, or the crew of HMS Spanker being accosted by leather-clad masochists in dockside bars.
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	HMS Vanguard 1910
		Battleship website dedicated to the history of HMS Vanguard from its launch to its participation in major wars also notice board for Naval Historians and enthusiasts and descendants of crew of HMS Vanguard.
		HMS Vanguard took part in the Battle of Jutland.
		HMS Vanguard at the Battle of Jutland by Dixon
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /vanguard_1910.htm (708 words)

	Maritime Prints Portfolio
		HMS VICTORY AFLOAT IN PORTSMOUTH WITH HM YACHT ALBERTA
		HMS THUNDERER entering Portsmouth 1921; HMS VICTORY in the background.
		HMS RENOWN wearing the Standard of HRH The Prince of Wales arrives in Plymouth Sound 22 June 1922
	www.maritimeprints.com /portfolio.asp (931 words)

	Maritime Prints Portfolio - HMS VANGUARD (1909), WITH SISTER SHIP OF ST VINCENT CLASS, IN DIRTY WEATHER AND SLEET ...
		HMS VANGUARD (1909), WITH SISTER SHIP OF ST VINCENT CLASS, IN DIRTY WEATHER AND SLEET FLURRIES.
		Cull has managed to portray the raw, biting unpleasantness of a filthy day, with dense clouds of coal smoke swirling across the upperdeck watchkeepers and seas sweeping inboard over the fo'csle and gun casemates.
		VANGUARD was laid down in 1908 as the last of the three St. Vincent Class dreadnoughts and was the ninth ship in the Royal Navy to bear the name.
	www.maritimeprints.com /portfolio.asp?id=56&dsp=1&MP=MP056 (173 words)

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		Killed in a collision with HMS Ardent and TB84, 18th April 1906, aged 36 years.
		Serving on HMS Britannia when it was torpedoed by a German submarine on 9th November 1918.
		Action May 1812 (HMS Northumberland) drove on shore and destroyed, near the entrance of Lorient, two French frigates (Arienne and Andromaque), and the brig Mamelouck.
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	BRITISH GROUP MEDALS -CHINA GROUPS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Joined the 4th Division of the Home Fleet in April 1909, until June 1909 when Centurion was towed to Motherbank and finally scrapped 12th July 1910.
		HMS Iron Duke (Flagship), HMS Agincourt, HMS Colossus, HMS Hercules, HMS Marlborough, HMS Neptune, HMS Revenge, HMS St. Vincent.
		HMS King George V, HMS Ajax, HMS Centurion, HMS Conqueror, HMS Erin, HMS Monarch, HMS Orion, HMS Thunderer.
	www.historikorders.com /chinagroups.htm (1141 words)

	Chapter 4
		One of her brothers, Ernest, was to live with her for the rest of her life.
		In October 1913, the postcards give the first reference to William Stanley's service on board HMS LION, which he had joined on 4th June 1912, and was to remain his ship for the rest of his career, unusual in time of War.
		She was one of the Royal Navy's most modern vessels, having been built in 1910 as a new type of ship, a Battle-cruiser.
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	Favorite ship name [Archive] - SpaceBattles.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On 26 April 1909, she was loaned to the State of Massachusetts as a school ship to replace Enterprise.
		Suspicions were confirmed for many on the 30th when the British battleship HMS Rodney was sighted some 20 miles away, on the same course as the Americans.
		This time, the British aircraft carrier HMS Eagle accompanied Wasp, and she, too, carried a contingent of Spitfires bound for the "unsinkable aircraft carrier," Malta.
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	marines2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His death was the result of wounds received on 18th March 1915 during the sinking of HMS Irresistible in the Dardanelles.
		On 10th April 1910 Gunner Arthur A Bagley RMA drew a revolver with the intention of shooting someone and during the scuffle which followed Sergeant Garwood was wounded, and died the next day in Bighi Naval Hospital.
		On 2nd March 1939 at 06.40 hours HMS Ramillies was off Gozo making preparations to enter Grand Harbour, when one of the davits broke loose whilst making the ladders ready to hoist out, and carried him overboard.
	website.lineone.net /~remosliema/marines2.htm (2912 words)

	Admiral Sir George Somers colonized Bermuda for Britain
		In 1600, he commanded HMS Vanguard which stopped and captured a Spanish treasure ship.
		In 1601, he captained HMS Swiftsure during the attack of the Spanish fleet off Kinsale.
		On February 15, the Memorial Monument to Sir George Somers was unveiled in St. George's, with the 1st Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment in attendance.
	www.bermuda-online.org /sirgeorgesomers.htm (2087 words)

	Royal Navy Battleships
		Sunk in collision with HMS Camperdown, 22 Jun 1893.
		The Germans claim a tactical victory, but the battle is a strategic victory for the Royal Navy, which forced the High Seas Fleet had to retreat, and maintained their blockade of Germany.
		10 December 1941:HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers near Singapore.
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		HMS Monarch -- Dreadnought Battleship -- WW1 -- TUCKS
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	Marine Listing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When HMS Vanguard was returning to Grand Harbour, he died in an accident in 5.2 inch gun turret.
		Matthew BULL, Marine, HMS Phoebe, died 25th August 1803 from a thigh wound, in the General Military Hospital, Valletta.
		While off Tunis the ship’s cutter with a party of officers and seamen on board capsized after being struck by a squall and all were drowned except for one seaman who managed to swim to the shore.
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