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HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of the Royal Navy's battleships, and the only ship of
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…after the 2018 merger of CAST into Dstl. Sections of 150 mm-thick (5.9-inch) pre-atomic steel plate uncontaminated with radionuclides, recovered from HMS Vanguard, were used for the shielding of the whole body monitor at the Radiobiological Research Laboratory (now Dstl) at Alverstoke, Gosport, Hampshire. In April…
Profile view of Vanguard underway
Overhead view of Vanguard
Vanguard during NATO Operation Mainbrace, 1952
Rear quarter view of Vanguard showing her transom stern