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  2. List of monitors of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    The Abercrombie-class monitors came about when Bethlehem Steel in the United States, the contracted supplier of the main armament for the Greek battleship Salamis being built in Germany, instead offered to sell the four 14"/45 caliber gun twin gun turrets to the Royal Navy on 3 November 1914, the ships were laid down and launched within six ...

  3. HMS M33 - Wikipedia

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    HMS M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Built in 1915, she saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia during the Allied Intervention in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, boom defence workshop and floating office, being renamed HMS Minerva and Hulk C23 ...

  4. HMS M31 - Wikipedia

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    HMS M31 was an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy.. The availability of ten 6 inch Mk XII guns from the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships in 1915 prompted the Admiralty to order five scaled down versions of the M15-class monitors, which had been designed to utilise 9.2 inch guns.

  5. List of monitors of World War II - Wikipedia

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    Royal Romanian Navy: Brătianu: monitor: 680 1907 sunk 24 August 1944 [5] Morava/Bosna Royal Yugoslav Navy Navy of the Independent State of Croatia: Körös: river monitor: 448 15 April 1920 scuttled 11 April 1941, raised by Croatia as Bosna, sunk June 1944 [9] [10] Parnaiba Brazilian Navy: river monitor: 620 9 March 1938 in service Perekop ...

  6. HMS Abercrombie (F109) - Wikipedia

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    HMS Abercrombie was a Royal Navy Roberts-class monitor of the Second World War. She was the second monitor to be named after General Sir Ralph Abercrombie. Abercrombie was built by Vickers Armstrong, Tyne. She was laid down on 26 April 1941, launched on 31 March 1942 and completed on 5 May 1943.

  7. Category:Monitors of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Monitors of the Royal Navy" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  8. HMS Havelock (1915) - Wikipedia

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    These turrets could not be delivered to the German builders, due to the British naval blockade. The Royal Navy immediately designed a class of monitors, designed for shore bombardment, to use the turrets. HMS Havelock was laid down at the Harland and Wolff Ltd shipyard at Belfast on 12 December 1914.

  9. HMS M18 - Wikipedia

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    HMS M18 was a M15-class monitor built for the Royal Navy during the ... She was renamed 'Alcione C.' in 1926 and was eventually torpedoed by the British submarine ...