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By this time, these two veterans were no better than hulks. The irony was that the two oldest aircraft carriers, Furious and Argus, had survived the war while all the other pre-war aircraft carriers had been lost. This was a modern navy and a well-balanced fleet, possibly more so than at any time in its history. Manpower had actually peaked in mid-1944 and had already begun to fall but the number of ships was at its peak in 1945. The Royal Navy in 1945 was a different service from the one that had gone to war in 1939. The last battleship of the Royal Navy, HMS Vanguard, with eight 15in guns in four turrets.
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