HMS Vanguard
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HMS
Vanguard was laid down at Vickers in 1908 and launched
22.April 1909. The year after she stood fully equipped as
a dreadnought in the St.Vincent class for Royal Navy. She
was assigned service in Home Fleet in Scapa Flow and
participated at the battle of Jutland in 1916, and
patrolled the English coastline and the North Sea. While
she laid at anchor in Scapa Flow 9.July 1917, the
ammunition storage on board suddenly exploded and she
immediately went down. Of the crew of 845 men only two men
survived. After the first world war parts of her got
broken up and salvaged, and the whole mid-section is today
flattened out. In 1986 the wreck got status as a war
grave, and diving here is prohibited. The remains of HMS
Vanguard rest on a depth of 14 to 30 meter south of Barel
of Butter and is marked with a buoy.
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| 58° 51′ 23.76″ N, 3° 6′ 22.32″ W ( Source: Wikipedia )  Picture: HMS Vanguard From "Disaster in Harbour, sinking of HMS Vanguard" by William Schleihauf  Last updated: September 2019 |
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