The loss of HMS Vanguard 1875
The loss of HMS Vanguard 1875 The name HMS Vanguard is associated today with the Royal Navy’s last battleship, scrapped in 1960. An earlier Vanguard was however to meet an even more unpleasant fate, and arguably a wholly avoidable one. HMS Vanguard The HMS Vanguard launched in 1870 was one [...]