Reference

Date 1998

Event ID 635951

Category Documentary Reference

Type Reference

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/635951

(Classified as battleship: date of loss cited as 9 July 1917). HMS Vanguard: this vessel was destroyed by a huge internal explosion while moored 1 mile NNE of Flotta.

Registration: London. Built 1909. 189250 tons displacement. Length: 147m. Beam: 27m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 51.45 W3 6.33).

I G Whittaker 1998.