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The Last Battleship Ever Built

You can support my channel on Patreon:   / hiddenhistoryyt   Thanks for watching, remember to like & subscribe! Excellent footage of Vanguard from:    • HMS Vanguard - Britain's Last Battleship   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-16-inch (406 mm) turrets for the Lion class would delay their completion until 1943 at the earliest. The British had enough 15-inch (381 mm) guns and turrets in storage to allow one ship of a modified Lion-class design with four twin-15-inch turrets to be completed faster than the Lion-class vessels that had already been laid down. Work on Vanguard was started and stopped several times during the war, and her design was revised several times during her construction to reflect war experience. These stoppages and changes prevented her from being completed before the end of the war. Vanguard's first task after completing her sea trial at the end of 1946 was, early the next year, to convey King George VI and his family on the first Royal Tour of South Africa by a reigning monarch. While refitting after her return, she was selected for another Royal Tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1948. This was cancelled due to King George's declining health and Vanguard briefly became flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet in early 1949. After her return home in mid-1949, she became flagship of the Home Fleet Training Squadron. Throughout her career, the battleship usually served as the flagship of any unit to which she was assigned. During the early 1950s, Vanguard was involved in a number of training exercises with NATO forces. In 1953 she participated in Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Review. Through the mid-1950s she was kept active, along with four older battleships in reserve, largely as a counter to the Soviet Sverdlov-class cruiser fleet, which she easily outperformed. As the Blackburn Buccaneer attack aircraft entered service, the need for large-gun ships to counter the Sverdlovs ended since the Buccaneer could attack the Sverdlovs with relative ease. While Vanguard was refitting in 1955, the Admiralty announced that the ship was going to be put into reserve upon completion of the work. She was sold for scrap and was broken up beginning in 1960. Test your thumbnails: https://thumbnailtest.com/?via=hidden... If you liked this video, check out my other submarine videos:    • Submarines/U-Boats   You can support my channel on Patreon:   / hiddenhistoryyt   Check out my book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7SNL7B7 Follow us on Twitter:   / hiddenhistoryyt   @HiddenHistoryYT Follow us on Instagram:   / hiddenhistorybannedagain   If you feel that this content in some way infringes on your own content please reach out to hiddenhistoryhelp@gmail.com #royalnavy #warships #ww2 #worldwar2 #history #battleship