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The design of monitors had been given by the Director of Naval Construction, Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt, to an Assistant Constructor, Charles S. Lillicrap (later himself to become Director). By the time the Marshal Ney s came about some 33 monitors of various sorts had already been ordered.
HMS Marshal Ney was the lead ship of her class of two monitors built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Laid down as M13, she was renamed after the French field marshal of the Napoleonic Wars Michel Ney. After service in the First World War, she became a depot ship and then an accommodation ship.
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 ...
HMS Marshal Soult was a Royal Navy Marshal Ney-class monitor constructed in the opening years of the First World War. Laid down as M14, she was named after the French general of the Napoleonic Wars Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult. She served in both World Wars and was decommissioned in 1946.
The Marshal Ney class was the United Kingdom's first attempt at a monitor carrying 15 in (381 mm) guns. [2] Following construction of the first two of the Marshall Ney-class, another four were ordered in May 1915, with the Harland and Wolff shipyard at Govan receiving a contract to construct two hulls, which were given yard numbers 492 and
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The Marshal Ney class was the United Kingdom's first attempt at a monitor carrying 15 in (381 mm) guns. [3] Following construction of the first two of the Marshall Ney-class, another four were ordered in May 1915, with the Harland and Wolff shipyard at Govan receiving a contract to construct two hulls, which were given yard numbers 492 and
USS Monitor, the first monitor (1861) HMS Marshal Ney used a surplus 15-inch gun battleship turret. A monitor is a relatively small warship that is neither fast nor strongly armored but carries disproportionately large guns.