The Last Battleship Ever Built Didn’t Sail for the US Navy: The Royal Navy’s HMS Vanguard Was 51,000-Tons, Could Hit 30 Knots and Never Fired a Shot In Battle

The Last Battleship Ever Built Didn’t Sail for the US Navy: The Royal Navy’s HMS Vanguard Was 51,000-Tons, Could Hit 30 Knots and Never Fired a Shot In Battle

HMS Vanguard, Britain's last battleship, was finished after World War II around 15-inch guns from storage, plus 73 Bofors guns added after Japanese aircraft sank HMS Prince of Wales. She never fired in anger, appeared in Sink the Bismarck!, and was scrapped by 1962.