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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Royal Navy: M15: monitor/training ship: 540 July 1915 scrapped 21 April 1959 Drava Royal Yugoslav Navy: Enns: river monitor: 536 15 April 1920 scuttled 11 April 1941 [7] Erebus Royal Navy: Erebus: monitor: 7,300 2 September 1916 scrapped July 1946 Flyagin Soviet Navy: Zheleznyakov river monitor: 230 30 December 1936 scuttled 18 September 1941 ...
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. ...
Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations 1914–1945 (2nd, revised and expanded ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-045-0. Colledge, J. J.; Wardlow, Ben & Bush, Steve (2020). Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (5th ...
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.
HMS Prince Rupert was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, an important Royalist commander of the English Civil War and key figure in the Restoration navy.