ALL Photos ARE ORIGINAL. 

i believe they were printed in the 1960s & 1970s showing naval vessels from earlier dates.

I COMBINE POSTAGE IF BUYING MULTIPLE ITEMS.

SIZE IN CENTIMETRES - 14cm x 9cm.

SUBJECT - Ship, HMS Vanguard (23).

HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during ww2 and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of the royal navy's battleships, the only ship of her class, and the last battleship to be built.

The Royal Navy anticipated being outnumbered by the combined German and Japanese battleships in the early 1940s, and had therefore started building the lion class battleships. However, the time-consuming construction of the triple-16-inch (406 mm) turrets for the Lion class would delay their completion until 1943 at the earliest. The British had enough 15-inch (381 mm) guns and turrets in storage to allow one ship of a modified Lion-class design with four twin-15-inch turrets to be completed faster than the Lion-class vessels that had already been laid down. Work on Vanguard was started and stopped several times during the war, and her design was revised several times during her construction to reflect war experience. These stoppages and changes prevented her from being completed before the end of the war.

DATE - may 1952.

PRESS STAMP - Please see scan image of the reverse.

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