Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/HMS Vanguard (1909)

HMS Vanguard (1909)

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The result was: not scheduled  by Gog the Mild (talk) 21:52, 7 January 2024 (UTC)



HMS Vanguard was one of three St Vincent-class battleship dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Completed in 1910, she spent her career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets. Aside from participating in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, where she claimed a few hits on the crippled Imperial German light cruiser SMS Wiesbaden, and the inconclusive Action of 19 August several months later, her service during World War I mostly consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. On the evening of 9 July 1917 at the Grand Fleet's naval base at Scapa Flow, the ship suffered a series of magazine explosions. Vanguard sank almost instantly, killing 843 of the 845 men aboard. Her wreck was heavily salvaged after the war, but it was eventually protected as a war grave in 1984, and was designated as a controlled site under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Nassau-class battleship, another ships article, is planned for TFA on Jan 28.
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 * Promoted: February 22, 2018
 * Reasons for nomination: 115th anniversary of launch. Blurb taken from the FAC talk page, written by Sturmvogel 66.
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 02:46, 2 December 2023 (UTC)