HMS "Vanguard" (battleship)
Service No: M/17688
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. 'Vanguard.'
© Allen Tony † 26/06/2007:
" The eighth HMS VANGUARD of the British Royal Navy was a St Vincent class battleship,....
Just before midnight on Monday, July 9, 1917, VANGUARD suffered an explosion in one of the two magazines which served the amidships turrets P and Q.
She sank almost instantly, killing 677 men."
© Jan Lettens 01/01/2015:
" In terms of loss of life, the explosion on HMS Bulwark remains the second most catastrophic explosion in the history of the UK, killing 738 sailors. The most deadly explosion in British history was that of HMS Vanguard, caused by a stokehold fire detonating a magazine, at Scapa Flow in 1917."
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10477
HMS "Vanguard" (battleship)
Service No: M/17688
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. 'Vanguard.'
© Allen Tony † 26/06/2007:
" The eighth HMS VANGUARD of the British Royal Navy was a St Vincent class battleship,....
Just before midnight on Monday, July 9, 1917, VANGUARD suffered an explosion in one of the two magazines which served the amidships turrets P and Q.
She sank almost instantly, killing 677 men."
© Jan Lettens 01/01/2015:
" In terms of loss of life, the explosion on HMS Bulwark remains the second most catastrophic explosion in the history of the UK, killing 738 sailors. The most deadly explosion in British history was that of HMS Vanguard, caused by a stokehold fire detonating a magazine, at Scapa Flow in 1917."
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10477
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