Sectional Drawing of HMS Vanguard
KEY TO H.M.S. VANGUARD.

A    UPPER DECK AND SUPERSTRUCTURE.

1.Ensign Staff with Overtaking and Fog Lamps.
2..After Bofors Battery (six guns).
3.Quarterdeck.
3a.Four single Bofors guns.
4.'Y' Turret and two 15-in guns.
5.'X' Turret and two 15-in guns.
6.After Director Towers.
7.Bofors Battery (six guns).
8.Director Towers.
9.Fans.
10.Wardroom Galley.
11.Typing Office.
12.Two Bofors guns.
13.Bofors Battery (six guns).
14.Main Mast.
15.Admiral's Sleeping Cabin.
16.Admiral's Dining. room.
17.Admiral's Staff Office.
18.Flag Lieutenant's Cabin.
19.Executive Offices.
20.Pantry.
21.Admiral's Pantry.
22.Wardroom.
23 & 23a. After Starboard 5.25in guns.
24.Bofors Battery (six guns).
25.Director Tower.
26.Boat Cranes.
27.45-ft. Picket Boat.
28.45-ft. Launch, Whaler and Dinghy.
29.32-ft. Cutter.
30.           Galley.
31.           Laundry.
32.Bofors Battery (six guns).
33.Foremast
34.Director Towers.
35.Upper Bridge.
36.Bofors Battery (six guns).
37 & 37a. Forward Starboard 5.25in guns.
38.Two Bofors guns.
39.'B' Turret and two 15in, guns.
40.'A' Turret and two 15in guns.
41.Single Bofors gun.
42 & 42a. Breakwaters.
43.Anchor Cables and Capstans.


B-MAIN DECK.

44.Officers' Cabins.
45.Captain's Day Cabin.
46.Captain's Sleeping Cabin.
47.Captain's Office.
48.Examining Office.
49.Gunroom.
50.           Cinema.
5I.            Bathrooms.
52.Stoker Petty Officers' Mess.
53.Dining Hall.
54.Dark Room.
55.Surgeon's Examining Room.
56.Dental Surgery.
57.Sick Bay.
58.Isolation Ward.
59.Petty Officers' Mess.
60 & 61. Seamen's Mess.
62.Peak Deck.

C  MIDDLE DECK.

63.Officers' Double Cabins.
64 & 64a. Marines' Mess.
65.,66 & 66a. Seamen's Mess.
67.Marines' Bathrooms.
68.Seamen's Mess.
69.Seamen's Bathrooms.
70.Stokers' Mess
71.           Pantry.
72 & 73. Seamen's Mess.
74.Stokers' Mess.
75.Seamen's Mess.
76.Boys' Schoolroom.
77.Boys' Bathrooms.
78.Boys' Recreation Room.
79.Naval Store.

D  LOWER DECK.

80.Marines' Baggage.
81            Engineers' Stores.
82.Officers' Bedding Store.
83.Tropical Stores.
84.           School.
55.           Church.
86 & 87.  Stores.
88.Anti-Gas Stores,etc.
89.Generators.
90.Strongroom.
91.Workshops.
92.Stokers' Bathrooms.
93.Fitters' Shop.
94.Lower Power Room.
95.Pumps.
96.Gunners' Store.
97.Provision Rooms.
98.Inflammable Stores.

E   UPPER PLATFORM DECK.

99.Spirit Room.
100.Fresh-water Tanks.
101.Engineers' Spare Gear.
102.Gunners' Store.
103.Stores.
104.Oil Fuel Filling Space.
105.Air Compressors.
106.Oil Fuel Filling Space.
107.Store Rooms.

F   PLATFORM DECK.

108.Store Rooms. etc.
109.Computing and Transmitting                           Rooms.
110.Cold Room.
111 Arctic Clothing Store

MACHINERY, ETC.

112.Rudder.
113.Starboard Propellers.
114."X "Engine Room.
115."X "Boiler Room.
116."A"EngineRoom.
117."A "Boiler Room.

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