Look at Life Vol 2 Military The Last Battleship 1962

The life and death of HMS Vanguard, and the uses to which her steel will be put.

[@daz6637]

Making the the crew stand there watching their ship being broken up is absolutely criminal.

[@johnwaller2886]

"Raw material's recklessly squandered! - a definite curse of the 21st century"!

[@dodgydruid]

In the 70's visiting my uncle's sub Warspite at Chatham, I saw Vanguards sister Triumph being prepped for scrap towing and I was given by a navy rating a hunk of her flight deck sadly lost when my late father's second wife had everything thrown out when he passed and she went into a home :( Vanguard was also the only battleship my late grandfather never got to ride during the war, he was a specialist Comms CPO based on the beached Iron Duke in Scapa Flow and he and his team would "hop on" to transiting ships upgrading and training crews all the radios and other comms equipment, he was a fairly popular chap being a navy boxing champion drubbing the other two branches often. They would work ships on their outward journey crossing over on bosun's chair after each ship upgraded then a days rest in somewhere like Gibraltar then work a convoy back to Scapa or another home port and either RAF it or passenger on a home fleet heading that way.

[@paulmcknight5985]

So sad. My uncle was serving on the Vanguard during the voyage with the Royal Family in 1947

[@ieeetransoncircuitssystemf1101]

should have preserved this magnificent ship on Thames.

[@АлексКраснов-ш7б]

Лучше Warspite.

[@indigohammer5732]

Why? It would have been better suited at home on The Clyde where she was built.

[@daffyduk77]

@@АлексКраснов-ш7б Warspite took everything thrown at her, survived even a Fritz-X guided bomb. Can you say that of the cruiser Moskva ??

[@АлексКраснов-ш7б]

@@daffyduk77 Im from Ukraine)))

[@daffyduk77]

@@АлексКраснов-ш7б If that is so, then my mistake, you used the word "Лучше" which Google Translate tells me is Russian language. Whilst bthere are some Russian speakers in Ukraine, the huge majority of Russian speakers are in Russia

[@warc8us]

This ship or one of the King George V Class battleships should have been kept as a museum ship.

[@jacksprat9172]

Definitely. Almost all ships end with a trip to the scrappers, such a loss.

[@routeman680]

3:30 The duty officer forgot to tell the helmsman "Left hand down a bit" (The Navy Lark). 2:30 What a handsome ship it was.

[@chopchung]

freeze @ 5:19 and go to full screen. i wonder if these two lads, here in the prime of their Royal Navy manhood, are still alive and if so do they realise their youthful selves are still to be seen on You Tube???.

[@danielw5850]

A depressing contrast: 21 years later, the equivalent ships of the US Navy were bombarding Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, warning/reminding our adversaries of the consequences of taking-on a "Big Dog"; Britain's economic duress and short-sightedness were why she was not in the Gun Line, off Beirut (1983) or indeed Kuwait (1991) .

[@oldvet7547]

Such a saddening thing to see.

[@johnallen7807]

I believe the US has preserved every one of the Iowa class, all we've got is a light cruiser, surely as the last of her kind she should have been saved as a memorial?

[@warc8us]

Every Iowa class, at least one of the South Dakota class (USS Alabama), and USS Texas of the New York class among possibly others.

[@lablackzed]

A crime she was never preserved the last of her kind .A least the Americans preserved some of theirs.

[@royaltararanger2125]

there used for ghost hunting programes a lot ships people hering voices seeing aapertions of ghosts dead sailors

[@mosesgoldbergshekelstien1520]

Americans didn’t just preserve theirs they modernised them and kept bringing them back for war where they were very effective

[@0tiochico]

Magnificent ship it was, i have a model of her, i didn't knew the story before seeing this. By the way, does someone know the background music playing in 7:55, i've heard on a couple of newsreels of the time.

[@pickashole]

Anyone know what the melody at 3:55 is called?

[@gazs4731]

Built for a war that was over when launched and then scrapped after a short life.

[@royaltararanger2125]

@Julien Bryan so what has she being up to

[@allandavis8201]

What a waste, we should have saved her as a reminder that Britannia did once rule the waves. ☹️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Cyberpuppy63]

A "volunteer" pool might be able to re-build an equivalent "clone" of this battleship. Lighter materials, tube steel and aluminum alloys (w. reinforced epoxy / metal mesh) . Not saying it would be as formidable as the original; but it could be "rebuilt" on the cheap. Missile batteries have made heavy turrets obsolete, but something equivalent might be cooked up. Just sayin' ( trying help, so to speak ).

[@MrSvenovitch]

They really should limit internet access in lunatic asylums.

[@jimbot2410]

How did this lady get sent to the scrap heap? What a shame. :(

[@rubovia]

Heatlh and Safety Niightmare !

[@dodgydruid]

It was nothing to do with salvaging materials, it was America who just couldn't bear old Blighty having such a powerful ship in what was part of the post war policy of driving the UK onto its back, after all the US kept their battleships why not we keep Nelson, Vanguard etc as proud reminders of the most powerful military and economic power in earths history but nope, it like the old carriers and cruisers all had to go because Washington said so...

[@sunshinecatcher8779]

Imagine the pollution caused doing that in those days

[@mikewinston8709]

Not a hard hat or hi vis in sight…😂