HMS VANGUARD LEAVES BIRTHPLACE 

Vanguard’s final design was derived from the 1942 design of the Lion-class. Only the 1938 design of the Lion-class were the “enlarged KGV” type. The Lion-class had a diverse amount of designs and not one design is an end-all-be-all. Also the official documents state that Vanguard’s designs started out having multiple proposals, either a “KGV hull” or a “Lion-class hull”, of which the latter was chosen. The 1944/1945 design of the Lion class got even more different by employing lighter armor and Daring guns for DP secondary guns

They were pretty broke

@@112mirai Which is true. but of the hundreds of battleships that they built throughout their history and how they decided to keep a 300 year old ship, HMS Victory and not a much more modern and maintainable superdrednought ship like HMS King George V, Queen Elizabeth, Vanguard. even a battle cruiser would be great, makes me wonder if they had the money or not. They did keep Belfast for me if possible. As a floating museum with entrance tickets and donations, its maintenance and repair would be paid for practically by itself. It was a lack of vision of the government of that time. Currently, only the USA has battleships and they are a very profitable tourist attraction that is unique in the world.

@@MrX-ni3tp they needed the money immediately, turning it into a museum would be very expensive, and nobody wanted to carry the expenses because vanguard had a pretty boring career.