Name HMS Prince Eugene Laid down 1 February 1915 Decommissioned 1921 Construction started 1 February 1915 Length 102 m Builder Harland and Wolff | Yard number 477 Completed 2 September 1915 Fate Scrapped in 1921 Launched 14 July 1915 Draft 2.96 m | |
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HMS 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. Her 12" main battery was stripped from the obsolete battleship HMS Hannibal.
The Lord Clive class monitors were built in 1915 to engage German shore artillery in occupied Belgium during the First World War. Prince Eugene, with her sisters was regularly engaged in this service in the Dover Monitor Squadron and was present at the First Ostend Raid, providing cover for the Inshore Squadron.
First World War
Her keel was laid down on 1 February 1915 at Harland and Wolff's Govan yard; she was launched on 14 July that same year.
In the summer of 1918, Prince Eugene was taken in for a refit in which her two 12" guns were to be replaced by a single 18" gun from HMS Furious which had been converted to an aircraft carrier. This refit was not complete by the war's end in November 1918 and was immediately cancelled, Prince Eugene being put into reserve pending scrapping, as the reason for her existence ended with the liberation of Belgium.
Prince Eugene was scrapped in 1921.