M29-class monitor
1915 class of British monitors
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The M29 class comprised five monitors of the Royal Navy, all built and launched during 1915.
NameM29-class monitor
Builders
- Harland & Wolff (3)
- Workman Clark (2)
Operators
Royal Navy
Royal NavyPreceded byM15 class
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | M29-class monitor |
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| Operators | Royal Navy |
| Preceded by | M15 class |
| Succeeded by | Erebus class |
| Completed | 5 |
| Lost | 1 |
| Preserved | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Monitor |
| Displacement | 535 tons |
| Length | 170 ft (52 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draught | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) |
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| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement | 75 |
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The ships of this class were ordered in March, 1915, as part of the Emergency War Programme of ship construction. The contract for construction was granted to Harland & Wolff, Belfast, who sub-contracted the construction of M32 and M33 to Workman, Clark and Company.
The main armament of the ships, two 6-inch Mk XII guns, came from guns originally intended for the five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships which became surplus when their aft casemate mountings turned out to be unworkable and were dispensed with.
Ships of the class
- HMS M29 – launched on 22 May 1915 and later renamed Medusa and Talbot, she was sold in 1946.
- HMS M30 – launched on 23 June 1915, and sunk on 14 May 1916.
- HMS M31 – launched on 24 June 1915, and broken up for scrap in 1948.
- HMS M32 – launched on 22 May 1915, and sold in January 1920.
- HMS M33 – launched on 22 May 1915, is one of a number of World War I-era warships in existence today and is located in dry-dock near HMS Victory at Portsmouth Naval Base. It has been restored and is open to public.[1]
