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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 ...
On 3 April 2014, The Babcock Galleries opened at the NMRN's Portsmouth Museum. The £4.5M project created 'HMS' – the Hear My Story exhibition, which tells the story of the 20th and 21st Century Royal Navy and its people, and a special exhibition space. [6] In October 2014, the Museum received funding to restore D-Day Landing Craft (Tank) LCT ...
The museum was founded in 1911. Known originally as the Dockyard Museum, it was conceived by Mr. Mark Edwin Pescott-Frost, then secretary to the Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth. [2] With a passion for naval history he spearheaded a project to save items for future generations, eventually leading to the opening of a new museum.
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.
Museums on the history of the Royal Navy (NOT including general civilian maritime history - for that, see Category:Maritime museums in the United Kingdom). Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
HMS Roberts was a Royal Navy Roberts-class monitor of the Second World War.She was the second monitor to be named after Field Marshal Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts.. Built by John Brown & Company, of Clydebank, she was laid down 30 April 1940, launched 1 February 1941 and completed on 27 October 1941.
The National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) is a maritime exposition and visitor attraction in Hartlepool, County Durham, Northern England. [1] The concept of the attraction is the thematic re-creation of an 18th-century seaport, in the time of Lord Nelson , Napoleon and the Battle of Trafalgar .
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 ...