HMS Vanguard (1909)

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
1907
Launched:
February 22, 1909
Keel Laid:
April 2, 1908
Commissioned:
March 1, 1910
   
Fate:
Sunk by internal explosion July 9, 1917.

Location: Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands.
(58.51.400N - 03.06.405W)

Over 800 crewmen killed (estimates range from 805 to 843), 2 survivors.
(Three men survived the disaster, but one died of his wounds.)


Builder's Data
Page published Mar. 11, 2008