Editing St Vincent-class battleship (section)

====''Vanguard'' explosion====
[[File:Collingwood at Rosyth, 1917.jpg|thumb|''Collingwood'' entering Rosyth, 25 August 1917]]
In the evening of 9 July 1917, ''Vanguard''{{'}}s magazines exploded while she was anchored in the northern part of Scapa Flow; she sank almost instantly, with only three survivors, one of whom died soon afterwards; 842 men aboard were lost.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Saunders |first1=Jonathan |title=Vanguard's Casualties + Survivors |url=http://www.gwpda.org/naval/vancaslt.htm|publisher=The World War I Document Archive |access-date=29 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.scapaflowwrecks.com/wrecks/vanguard/people.php |title=HMS Vanguard People: Scapa Flow Wrecks |publisher=Scapa Flow Historic Wreck Site|access-date=23 December 2016}}</ref> ''Collingwood''{{'}}s crew recovered the bodies of three men killed in the explosion.<ref name=b20/> The [[Board of Inquiry]] concluded that a fire of unknown origin began in a 4-inch magazine and spread to one or both of the nearby 12-inch magazines, which detonated and sank the ship.<ref>[[#Burt|Burt]] (1986), pp. 84, 86.</ref>