HMS Humber was a Humber-class

Humber class monitor

The Humber class monitors were three large gunboats under construction for the Brazilian Navy in Britain in 1913. Designed for service on the Amazon River, the ships were of shallow draft and heavy armament and were ideally suited to inshore, riverine and coastal work but flawed for service at sea,...

 monitor of the Royal Navy

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. Originally built by Vickers

Vickers

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 for Brazil

Brazil

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 as the Javary, she was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War

World War I

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 along with her sister ship

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s and .

Humber took part in operations along the Belgian coast October to November 1914. In March 1915, she was towed to Malta

Malta

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, and arrived off Gallipoli

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 in June. She remained in Egyptian waters until August 1917, when she became a guardship at Akaba

Akaba

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, before being sent to Mudros in October 1918.

Humber returned to England in March 1919, and was refitted prior to being towed to Murmansk

Murmansk

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 in May 1919, for service with the British forces in the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

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. She left Archangel

Arkhangelsk

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in September 1919 and was towed back to England for paying off.

Humber was sold on 17 September 1920 to F. Rijsdijk, and converted to a crane lighter. She was still afloat in 1938 and was probably broken up post 1945.