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[i][[Azur Lane]][/i]'s personification of the [[Royal Navy]] battleship HMS [i]Vanguard[/i] (23). Character design by [[Ask (askzy)]].

h4. Appearance
[tn]See post #6008198.[/tn]

In-game, [i]Vanguard[/i] is portrayed with the typical Caucasian attributes of [[long hair|long]] [[blonde hair]] and [[blue eyes]]. Her outfit consists of a [[white dress]], [[white cape]] with green inside color, white [[thighhighs]], [[black footwear]], black [[hair ribbon]], and [[black gloves]].

Her [[rigging]] is a large and elaborate setup akin to the French factions, sporting her four historical 381 mm twin gun mounts and two 13.3 cm twin DP secondary mounts.

h4. Personality
From her voice lines, she is implied to be an [[otaku]], made more apparent with "her gacha build obtain animation":[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smcvah3Sqp8] that resembles a [i]mahou shoujo[/i] transformation sequence. 

h4. History
In real life, [i]Vanguard[/i] was the Royal Navy's largest and fastest battleship (45,000 tons and 30 knots), but was the [b]last[/b] British battleship built and commissioned ([[Jean Bart (Azur Lane)|]] was the last commissioned in the world, in 1949/1955).
She was built to a modified [i]Lion[/i]-class design meant to take in Courageous' and [[Glorious (Azur Lane)|]]' original 381 mm guns in storage to expedite construction. She was launched in 1944, commissioned in 1946, and sold for scrap in 1960.

h4. Skins
* [[Vanguard (Half-Hearted Masquerade) (Azur Lane)|Half-Hearted Masquerade]]

h4. See also
* [[Vanguard (Warship Girls R)]]

h4. External links
* "Wikipedia: HMS [i]Vanguard[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vanguard_(23)]
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