HMS
Vanguard naval battleship prints. Naval art gallery of HMS
Vanguard displaying the artwork of naval artist Ivan Berryman.
This gallery includes all the prints and original naval paintings of
Ivan Berryman which depict the Royal Navy battleship 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. she carried eight
15-inch guns (Guns and Turrets originally from HMS Courageous and HMS
Glorious) and a secondary armament of 16 x 5.25 inch guns and 71 AA
Guns, her compliment was 1600. HMS Vanguard was refitted in 1947 -
1948 and went to the Mediterranean in 1949 for six months. On her return
she became a training ship at Portland and then Home Fleet Flagship
during exercise before refit at Devonport, becoming the Flagship of the
reserve fleet. She finally was scrapped just 15 miles
from where she was built at Faslane, 9th August 1960.
