The British battleship HMS Vanguard was built in the years 19411946 at the John Brown ampamp Company shipyard in Clydebank. It was quite an unusual ship due to the fact that it was built as the largest and also the last of the British battleships and armed with artillery towers stored since 1925 taken from the cruisers HMS Courageous and HMS Glorious. It is widely regarded as Britains best designed battleship wellarmed but also least needed. Design work began before World War II and was compl