VANGUARD (November 30, 1944)

Displacement: 42,500 tons (standard), about 50,000 full load Complement: 2000 (war) Length: 814 ft 4 in (o.a.) Beam: 107 ft 6 in Draught: ? Guns: 8 - 15 in. 42 cal. 16 - 5.25 in. DP 4 - 3 pdr. 71 - 40 mm AA (Bofors) Machinery: Parsons single reduction geared turbines. 4 shafts. S.H.P. : 130,000 = 29 kts or more. Boilers: 8 Admiralty 3-drum type.

General notes: Authorised under War Estimates, and designed by Sir Stanley Goodall. Ordered March 14, 1941; laid down at Clydebank October 2, 1941, and completed in April, 1946. Cost L9,000,000, exclusive of 15-inch guns and mountings. Gunnery notes: Latest system of radar control is installed. The 15-inch guns are those first mounted in H.M.S. Courageous and Glorious in 1917, and later removed from those ships to be added to reserve of weapons of that calibre maintained for Hood, Qeen Elizabeth and Royal Sovereign types. Engineering notes: Engine-rooms and boiled-rooms are arranged in four self-contained units. Oil-burning system is on novel lines. Damage control arrangements claimed to be the most thorough ever installed in H.M. ships.