HMS Vanguard (S28)

16,000 tons

149.9 meters

12.8 meters

12 meters

135

1 nuclear reactor, one shaft

25 knots

16 ICBMs, 4 torpedo tubes

The HMS Vanguard (S28 ) is a nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy and is a member of the Vanguard class. As missile submarine Vanguard carries 16 ICBMs UGM - 133A Trident II

History

The submarine was established in 1986 as the first in its class commissioned and placed in the same year at Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering at Barrow -in- Furness on Kiel. 1992 ran it from the stack and was baptized in the name of Vanguard. Just nine ships of the Royal Navy have been in front of her this name, which means about vanguard. In August 1993, Vanguard was officially put into service.

The submarine was stationed at the Naval Base Clyde at Faslane -on- Clyde, Scotland, and went from there to the nuclear deterrent patrols. In 2002, the Vanguard was docked in a new dry dock in the base Devonport and outdated there. It was not until late 2004, the overhaul was completed. In the removal of the nuclear fuel it an accident when the elevator, which raises the nuclear fuel from the reactor, bumped the scaffolding around the submarine happened. According to official figures the accident was not relevant to safety. The critical organization Trident Ploughshares doubted this, however.

2005 Vanguard resumed their patrol routine. During a journey, the Vanguard collided on 3 or 4 February 2009 at the Atlantic with the French nuclear submarine Triomphant (S 616), the Triomphant class. According to the Royal Navy both boats were driven at very low speed, there had been no casualties. The Vanguard was therefore returned to the collision under its own power according to Faslane. The reactor was not affected by the accident. The French Navy had already announced a few days after the incident, the Triomphant was probably collided with a container and easily damaged. The collision of two submarines became public until February 16.

2015 needs to be replaced for 120 million pounds of the reactor core of the " Vanguard". Since 2012 at the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment at Dounreay too much radioactivity was measured in the cooling water in a test reactor to avoid possible problems on British nuclear submarines prior to the early exchange of the core.