What an amazing piece of naval history, she was built around half a mile from my house. I often take a walk around the fitting bay and imagine the huge ships of clydebank's past sitting in the bay. I wish I was alive to witness them.
HMS Vanguard was definitely *not* the first Lion class ship - otherwise she would have been named ‘Lion’. All Lions were cancelled. The Lion’s design was basically an enlarged KGV with three 16“ triple turrets. Vanguard was a massively modified design (armour, propulsion, bow) with four 15” twin turrets inherited from the WW1 ‘large light cruisers’ Courageous and Glorious.
Vanguard’s final design was derived from the 1942 design of the Lion-class. Only the 1938 design of the Lion-class were the “enlarged KGV” type. The Lion-class had a diverse amount of designs and not one design is an end-all-be-all. Also the official documents state that Vanguard’s designs started out having multiple proposals, either a “KGV hull” or a “Lion-class hull”, of which the latter was chosen. The 1944/1945 design of the Lion class got even more different by employing lighter armor and Daring guns for DP secondary guns
A mere 14 years after this film was made HMS Vanguard was broken up having seen very light service in her very short existence, she should have been more fittingly named Rearguard as the last of the British line of Battleships and quite possibly the finest of all the British Battleship ever built, during NATO exercise Mariner in 1953 her seakeeping & stability in very heavy north atlantic weather put her head & shoulders well above her NATO allied contemporaries.
@@112mirai Which is true. but of the hundreds of battleships that they built throughout their history and how they decided to keep a 300 year old ship, HMS Victory and not a much more modern and maintainable superdrednought ship like HMS King George V, Queen Elizabeth, Vanguard. even a battle cruiser would be great, makes me wonder if they had the money or not. They did keep Belfast for me if possible. As a floating museum with entrance tickets and donations, its maintenance and repair would be paid for practically by itself. It was a lack of vision of the government of that time. Currently, only the USA has battleships and they are a very profitable tourist attraction that is unique in the world.
@@MrX-ni3tp they needed the money immediately, turning it into a museum would be very expensive, and nobody wanted to carry the expenses because vanguard had a pretty boring career.
Lovely to see Princess Elizabeth here. RIP to Her Majesty.
What an amazing piece of naval history, she was built around half a mile from my house. I often take a walk around the fitting bay and imagine the huge ships of clydebank's past sitting in the bay. I wish I was alive to witness them.
Such a good looking ship!!
HMS Vanguard was definitely *not* the first Lion class ship - otherwise she would have been named ‘Lion’. All Lions were cancelled. The Lion’s design was basically an enlarged KGV with three 16“ triple turrets. Vanguard was a massively modified design (armour, propulsion, bow) with four 15” twin turrets inherited from the WW1 ‘large light cruisers’ Courageous and Glorious.
Vanguard’s final design was derived from the 1942 design of the Lion-class. Only the 1938 design of the Lion-class were the “enlarged KGV” type. The Lion-class had a diverse amount of designs and not one design is an end-all-be-all.
Also the official documents state that Vanguard’s designs started out having multiple proposals, either a “KGV hull” or a “Lion-class hull”, of which the latter was chosen.
The 1944/1945 design of the Lion class got even more different by employing lighter armor and Daring guns for DP secondary guns
A mere 14 years after this film was made HMS Vanguard was broken up having seen very light service in her very short existence, she should have been more fittingly named Rearguard as the last of the British line of Battleships and quite possibly the finest of all the British Battleship ever built, during NATO exercise Mariner in 1953 her seakeeping & stability in very heavy north atlantic weather put her head & shoulders well above her NATO allied contemporaries.
should never have been scrapped. what a beautiful ship she was. shame on the british government.
They were pretty broke
@@112mirai Which is true. but of the hundreds of battleships that they built throughout their history and how they decided to keep a 300 year old ship, HMS Victory and not a much more modern and maintainable superdrednought ship like HMS King George V, Queen Elizabeth, Vanguard. even a battle cruiser would be great, makes me wonder if they had the money or not. They did keep Belfast for me if possible. As a floating museum with entrance tickets and donations, its maintenance and repair would be paid for practically by itself. It was a lack of vision of the government of that time. Currently, only the USA has battleships and they are a very profitable tourist attraction that is unique in the world.
@@MrX-ni3tp they needed the money immediately, turning it into a museum would be very expensive, and nobody wanted to carry the expenses because vanguard had a pretty boring career.
indeed a very impressive yacht!
Good looking Battleship...
A beautiful ship.
This ship was ment to be one in four Lion class battleships with 9×16" guns.
Una nave bellissima
12 de mayo de 1946
0:24 I'd be so scared to stand underneath the ship...
For the people who were wearing headphones in the first 5 seconds, rip
John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Escocia
A beautiful ship thar came to late.
should have been kept, what a tragedy.
Churchill and Roosevelt met on the HMS Prince of Wales and USS Augusta. The KGV, its sister ship, had nothing to do with it.