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Name
  
M29-class monitor

Preceded by
  
M15 class

Completed
  
5

Operators
  
Royal Navy

Succeeded by
  
Erebus class

Lost
  
1

M29-class monitor

The 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. The contract for construction was granted to Harland & Wolff, Belfast, who sub-contracted the construction of the M29 and M31 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 May 22, 1915 and later renamed Medusa and Talbot, she was sold in 1946.
  • HMS M30 - launched on June 23, 1915, and sunk on May 14, 1916.
  • HMS M31 - launched on June 24, 1915, and broken up for scrap in 1948.
  • HMS M32 - launched on May 22, 1915, and sold in January 1920.
  • HMS M33 - launched on May 22, 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.

    • References

    M29-class monitor Wikipedia
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