Yard number 480 Completed 23 September 1915 Fate Scrapped 1921 Launched 26 August 1915 Draft 2.96 m | Laid down 16 January 1915 Decommissioned 1921 Construction started 16 January 1915 Length 102 m Builder Harland and Wolff | |
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Name HMS Earl of Peterborough | ||
HMS 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. The ship's original 12" main battery was stripped from an obsolete Majestic-class battleship, the HMS Mars.
The Lord Clive-class monitors were originally built in 1915 to engage German shore artillery in occupied Belgium during the First World War. Earl of Peterborough, however was differently employed, being dispatched to the Eastern Mediterranean upon completion for service with the fleet there. Early in 1916 she shelled Turkish positions in the Dardanelles and during the remainder of the war was active against Turkish units in Egypt, Palestine and Turkey itself.
Following the armistice in November 1918, Earl of Peterborough and her sisters were put into reserve pending scrapping, as the reason for their existence ended with the liberation of Central Power-led coastlines. In 1921 Earl of Peterborough was scrapped along with all her sisters.