Product Description
The Vanguard was a battleship built by the Royal Navy as part of the New Standard Fleet, and was the last super-dreadnought battleship in the Royal Navy's fleet.
Vanguard is a traditional name for British Royal Navy ships, and it is the third ironclad ship to bear this name; no other ships of the same class exist.
This ship, which can be considered the culmination of British battleships that followed in the footsteps of the armored ship Warrior, had its 15-inch main guns removed from Courageous-class battlecruisers and its engines repurposed from those intended for the Lion-class battleships in order to expedite its construction.
Although some view the Vanguard as a hastily built wartime ship, it incorporated improvements requested by the field and lessons learned from actual combat to address the shortcomings and flaws of the new British battleships. As a result, it was equipped with anti-aircraft and radar armament, sufficient defensive capabilities and high speed, and excellent seaworthiness.
Although this ship was intended as a replacement for the battlecruiser Hood, which was sunk in the Battle of the Denmark Strait, it was not completed until after the end of World War II.
After being used as an imperial yacht, the Vanguard was placed in reserve in the mid-1950s and scrapped in 1960.
Although this ship is often seen as being inferior in terms of offensive and defensive capabilities due to its use of outdated main guns and hastily constructed construction, it has also been praised as the "best battleship in British naval history" due to its excellent overall balance of main guns, anti-aircraft guns, armor, and speed.
[Summary]
Standard discharge volume: 45,200 tons
• Full load displacement: 522,500 tons
・Total length 248.21m
Speed: 30 knots
・ Crew: 1,590
Armament: 4 twin 38.1cm 42-caliber guns, 81 twin dual-purpose 13.3cm 50-caliber guns, 10 Bofors 40mm 6-barrel machine guns, 2 twin Bofors 40mm machine guns, 11 single Bofors 40mm machine guns.
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Item Size/Weight : 41.3 x 13.7 x 7.3 cm / 496g
Product Specifications
- Item code
- TRFM70013WL
- JAN code
- 4571628260351
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