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The St Vincent-class battleships were a group of three dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The sister ships spent their careers assigned to the British Home and Grand Fleets. Aside from participating in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 and the inconclusive Action of 19 August several months later, their service during the First World War generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. Vanguard was destroyed in 1917 by a magazine explosion with the near total loss of her crew. St Vincent and Collingwood were obsolete by the end of the war in 1918, and spent their remaining service either in reserve or as training ships before being sold for scrap in the early 1920s. Vanguard's wreck was extensively salvaged before it was declared a war grave. Since 2002, it has been designated as a controlled site under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986. (Full article...)
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Hi Sturmvogel 66 and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:07, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
- One minor change.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 14:35, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
- Oops. Thanks Sturm. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:40, 12 January 2020 (UTC)