What You Need to Know: HMS Vanguard, Britain’s last battleship, was laid down in 1941 amid shifting naval tactics favoring aircraft carriers over traditional battleships. Despite being completed ...

The result was the HMS Vanguard. The HMS Vanguard came with a hefty price. At the time, the battleship cost the Royal Navy approximately £11,500,000, which translates to almost $800 million today.

HMS Vanguard's bell was recovered by a team of divers after 108 years on the seabed A bell from a World War One battleship - which sank with the loss of hundreds of lives in Scapa Flow in Orkney ...

When the British Royal Navy battleship HMS Vanguard was laid down in 1941, battleships were already on the wane. Aircraft carriers had proven their worth in repeated engagements.