List of monitors of the Royal Navy
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- Humber classHumber class monitorThe 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,...
- SevernHMS Severn (1914)HMS Severn was a Humber-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Originally built by Vickers for Brazil, she was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 on the outbreak of World War I along with her sister ships Humber and Mersey. She had been christened Solimoes by the Brazilians, but was renamed by the British...
- HumberHMS Humber (1914)HMS Humber was a Humber-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Originally built by Vickers for Brazil as the Javary, she was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War along with her sister ships and ....
- MerseyHMS Mersey (1914)HMS Mersey was a Humber-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Originally built by Vickers for Brazil and christened Madeira, she was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 on the outbreak of World War I along with her sister ships Humber and Severn.She had a relatively successful career in World War I and...
- Severn
- Abercrombie classAbercrombie class monitorThe Abercrombie class of monitors served in the Royal Navy during the First World War.-History:The four ships in this class came about when the contracted supplier of the main armament for the Greek battleship being built in Germany was unable to supply due to the British blockade...
- AbercrombieHMS Abercrombie (1914)HMS Abercrombie was a First World War Royal Navy Abercrombie-class monitor.On 3 November 1914, Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel offered Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, the use of four 14in/45cal BL MK II twin gun turrets, originally destined for the Greek ship Salamis...
- HavelockHMS Havelock (1915)HMS Havelock was an Abercrombie-class monitor of the Royal Navy that saw service in the First World War.On 3 November 1914, Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel offered Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, the use of four 14in/45cal BL MK II twin gun turrets, originally destined for...
- RaglanHMS RaglanHMS Raglan was a First World War Royal Navy Abercrombie-class monitor.-Design:On 3 November 1914, Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel offered Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, the use of eight /45 cal BL MK II guns in twin gun turrets, originally destined for the Greek battleship...
- RobertsHMS Roberts (1915)HMS Roberts was an Abercrombie-class monitor of the Royal Navy that served in the First World War.On November 3, 1914, Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel offered Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, the use of four 14in/45cal BL MK II twin gun turrets, originally destined for the...
- Abercrombie
- Lord Clive classLord Clive class monitorThe Lord Clive class, sometimes referred to as the General Wolfe class, of monitors were ships designed for shore bombardment and were constructed for the Royal Navy during the First World War.-Design:...
- Lord CliveHMS Lord CliveHMS Lord Clive was the lead ship of the British monitors. She was named for Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, a British general of the Seven Years' War who won the Battle of Plassey and became Governor of British India. Her main guns were taken from the obsolete pre-dreadnought battleship...
- General Craufurd
- Earl of PeterboroughHMS Earl of PeterboroughHMS Earl of Peterborough was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor. Earl of Peterborough was the only Royal Navy ship ever named for Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, a British general of the War of the Spanish Succession who fought in Spain...
- Sir Thomas PictonHMS Sir Thomas PictonHMS Sir Thomas Picton was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor. Sir Thomas Picton was the only Royal Navy ship ever named for Sir Thomas Picton, a British general of the Peninsula War who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo...
- Prince EugeneHMS Prince EugeneHMS Prince Eugene was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor named after Prince Eugene of Savoy, an important commander of the War of the Spanish Succession who fought with the Duke of Marlborough. She is the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named after the general...
- Prince RupertHMS Prince RupertHMS Prince Rupert was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor named for Prince Rupert of the Rhine, an important Royalist cavalry commander of the English Civil War. Although she is the only ship of the Royal Navy to have ever had this precise name, other ships have been named for...
- Sir John MooreHMS Sir John MooreHMS Sir John Moore was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor named for Sir John Moore, a British general of the Peninsula War who was killed in action during the Battle of Corunna...
- General WolfeHMS General WolfeHMS General Wolfe, also known as Wolfe, was a Lord Clive class monitor which was built in 1915 for shore-bombardment duties in the First World War. Her class of eight ships was armed by four obsolete Majestic class pre-dreadnoughts which had their 12-inch guns and mounts removed, modified and...
- Lord Clive
- Marshal Ney classMarshal Ney class monitorThe two Marshal Ney class monitors were built for the Royal Navy during the First World War-Design and development:The need for monitors for shelling enemy positions from the English Channel had become apparent only at the start of the war and they were designed with some haste...
- Marshal NeyHMS Marshal NeyHMS Marshal Ney was a Royal Navy Marshal Ney class monitor constructed in the opening years of the First World War. Laid down as M13, she was named for the French general of the Napoleonic Wars Marshal Michel Ney....
- Marshal SoultHMS Marshal SoultHMS 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 for the French general of the Napoleonic Wars Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult....
- Marshal Ney
- Gorgon classGorgon class monitorThe Gorgon class monitors were a class of monitors in service with the Royal Navy during World War I. and her sister ship were originally built as coastal defence ships for the Norwegian Navy, as HNoMS Nidaros and HNoMS Bjørgvin respectively. Gorgon commissioned first, in June 1918 and bombarded...
- GorgonHMS Gorgon (1914)HMS Gorgon and her sister ship were two monitors originally built as coastal defence ships for the Royal Norwegian Navy, as HNoMS Nidaros and Bjørgvin respectively, by Armstrong Whitworth at Elswick. She was purchased from Norway at the beginning of the First World War, but was not completed until...
- GlattonHMS Glatton (1914)HMS Glatton and her sister ship were originally built as coastal defence ships for the Royal Norwegian Navy, as Bjørgvin and Nidaros respectively. She was purchased from Norway at the beginning of World War I, but was not completed until 1918 although she had been launched over three years earlier...
- Gorgon
- M15 classM15 class monitorThe M15-class comprised fourteen monitors of the Royal Navy, all built and launched during 1915.- Design :The ships of this class were ordered in March, 1915, as part of the Emergency War Programme of ship construction...
- M15HMS M15HMS M15 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor. She was sunk off Gaza by on November 11, 1917.-Design:Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, M15s primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk X gun which had been held as a spare for the and . In addition to her 9.2 inch gun, she...
- M16HMS M16HMS M16 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor.-Design:Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, M16s primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk X gun which had been held as a spare for the and . In addition to her 9.2 inch gun, she also possessed one 12 pounder and one six pound...
- M17HMS M17HMS M17 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor.-Design:Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, M17s primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk X gun which had been held as a spare for the and . In addition to her 9.2 inch gun, she also possessed one 12 pounder and one six pound...
- M18HMS M18HMS M18 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor.-Design:Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, M18s primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk X gun which had been held as a spare for the and . In addition to her 9.2 inch gun, she also possessed one 12 pounder and one six pound...
- M19HMS M19HMS M19 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor.-Design:Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, M19s primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk VI gun removed from the HMS Edgar . In addition to her 9.2 inch gun she also possessed one 12 pounder and one six pound anti-aircraft gun...
- M20HMS M20HMS M20 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor.-Design:Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, M20s primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk VI gun removed from the HMS Gibraltar . In addition to her 9.2 inch gun she also possessed one 12 pounder and one six pound anti-aircraft...
- M21HMS M21HMS M21 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor. After service in the Mediterranean and the Dover Patrol, she struck a mine off Ostend in January 1918 and sank off Dover.-Design:...
- M22HMS M22HMS M22 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor. Later converted to a minelayer and renamed HMS Medea , she was wrecked whilst being towed for breaking up on 2 January 1939.-Design:...
- M23HMS M23HMS M23 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor. After service in the Mediterranean and the Dover Patrol, she was also served in the British intervention in Russia in 1919...
- M24HMS M24HMS M24 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor. After service in the Dover Patrol, she was also served in the British intervention in Russia in 1919. She was sold in mercantile service in 1920.-Design:...
- M25HMS M25HMS M25 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor. She was also served in the British intervention in Russia in 1919, and was scuttled in the Dvina River on the 16th September, 1919.-Design:...
- M26HMS M26HMS M26 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor.-Design:Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, M26s primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk VI gun removed from the HMS Edgar . In addition to her 9.2 inch gun she also possessed one 12 pounder and one six pound anti-aircraft gun...
- M27HMS M27HMS M27 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor. She was also served in the British intervention in Russia in 1919, and was scuttled in the Dvina River on the 16th September, 1919.-Design:...
- M28HMS M28HMS M28 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor. She was sunk during the Battle of Imbros in 1918.-Design:Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, M28s primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk VI gun removed from the HMS Grafton. In addition to her 9.2 inch gun, she also possessed...
- M15
- M29 classM29 class monitorThe M29-class comprised five monitors of the Royal Navy, all built and launched during 1915.The ships of this class were ordered in March, 1915, as part of the Emergency War Programme of ship construction...
- M29HMS M29HMS M29 was a Royal Navy M29 class monitor of the First World War.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...
(later HMS Medusa) - M30HMS M30HMS M30 was a Royal Navy M29 class monitor of the First World War.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...
- M31HMS M31HMS 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 M31 and her...
- M32HMS M32HMS M32 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 M32 and her...
- M33HMS M33HMS M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy built in 1915. She saw active service in the Mediterranean during World War I and in Russia during the Allied Intervention in 1919...
- M29
- Erebus classErebus class monitorThe Erebus class of monitors of the Royal Navy consisted of two ships: HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.* HMS Erebus was built by Harland and Wolff, Govan. She was laid down 12 October 1915, launched on 19 June 1916 and commissioned in September 1916...
- ErebusHMS Erebus (I02)HMS Erebus was a World War I monitor launched on 19 June 1916 and served in both world wars. She and her sister HMS Terror are known as the Erebus class...
- TerrorHMS Terror (I03)HMS Terror was an Erebus-class monitor built for the Royal Navy in 1915-16 at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Govan, Scotland.The Erebus-class monitors were of displacement, long, with a maximum speed of produced by reciprocating engines with two shafts, and a crew of 223. The ship's main...
- Erebus
- Roberts classRoberts class monitorThe Roberts class of monitors of the Royal Navy consisted of two heavily-gunned vessels built during the Second World War. They were the Roberts, completed in 1941, and Abercrombie, completed in 1943....
- RobertsHMS Roberts (F40)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....
- AbercrombieHMS Abercrombie (F109)HMS Abercrombie was a Royal Navy Roberts class monitor of the Second World War. She was the second monitor to be named after General Sir Ralph Abercrombie....
- Roberts