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The Erebus class of warships was a class of 20th century Royal Navy monitors armed with a main battery of two 15-inch /42 Mk 1 guns in a single turret. It consisted of two vessels, Erebus and Terror, named after the two ships lost in the Franklin Expedition. Both were launched in 1916 and saw active service in World War I off the Belgian coast.
The Monitor, prototype for an entire class of warship.. Monitor class . Monitor, foundered 31 December 1862, 16 killed; Passaic class. Passaic; Montauk; Nahant; Patapsco, sunk by mine on 15 January 1865, 75 killed
Those of the Abercrombie class were 320 feet (98 m) by 90 feet (27 m) in the beam and drew 9 feet (2.7 m) compared to the M29-class monitors of 1915 that were only 170 feet (52 m) long, and the Erebus class of 1916, which were 405 feet (123 m) long. The largest monitors carried the heaviest guns.
A monitor is a class of relatively small warship that is lightly armoured, often provided with disproportionately large guns, and originally designed for coastal warfare. . The term "monitor" grew to include breastwork monitors, the largest class of riverine warcraft known as river monitors, and was sometimes used as a generic term for any turreted sh
The M15-class monitors were fourteen ships ordered in March 1915, as part of the War Emergency Programme of ship construction, mounting 9.2 inch Mk VI gun turrets removed from the Edgar-class and the Mk X turrets held in stock for the Drake-class and Cressy-class cruisers.
Monitor classes (31 C, 30 P) E. Monitors by period ... This list may not reflect recent changes. Monitor (warship) R. River monitor
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Monitor.The name means "a person or thing that warns or instructs"; it was suggested by the engineer John Ericsson who hoped that his warship — the first Monitor — would admonish the Confederate States of America and the United Kingdom which was then sympathetic to the Confederacy.
Monitor classes of the United States Navy (10 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Monitors of the United States Navy" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.