On this day in 1944 the last and largest Royal Navy Battleship and the last Battleship in the world to be launched, HMS Vanguard was launched in Clydebank by the then Princess Elizabeth. She was over 50,000 Tonnes at full load and capable of over 30 Knots. The end of an era.
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Stores Basin, Sembawang Dockyard, Singapore, 1974. RFA TIDESURGE and RFA TIDESPRING visiting with HMS LONDONDERRY, HMS SYCLLA, HMS DANAE, HMS CHICHESTER, HMAS VENDETTA, HMS HYDRA, HMS ARIADNE, HMS WASPERTON, HMS YARNTON, HMNZS OTAGO,
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