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HMS Vanguard

Great Britain · Warfare / Nuclear. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1993

Benjamin Bathurst Bathurst14 August 1993

Barrow-in-Furness · Warfare / Nuclear

HMS Vanguard is commissioned as the first British Trident ballistic missile submarine

Names involved

Benjamin Bathurst Bathurst

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