HMS Raglan

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Career

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Launched:	29 April 1915
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Fate:	Sunk 20 January 1918
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General Characteristics
Displacement:	6,150 tons
Length:	320 ft
Beam:	90 ft
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Armament:	Two 14-inch guns Two 6-inch guns Two 12 pdr guns
Aircraft:	None Except Short 166 in October 1916 and Short 184 in September 1917
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HMS Raglan was a First World War Royal Navy Abercrombie-class monitor.

As with all of the vessels in this class she was armed with a 14-inch twin gun turret originally destined for the Greek ship Salamis and bought from Bethlehem Steel in the United States.

She was launched as HMS M3 and within a few days renamed HMS Lord Raglan before this was shortened to HMS Raglan. She was sunk off Imbros by the Turkish battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim (formerly SMS Goeben still retaining a largely German crew). Yavuz Sultan Selim, the cruiser Midilli (formerly the SMS Breslau but still with a German crew.) and four destroyers had made a sortie out of the Dardanelles to attack the Anglo-French fleet blockading them, of which Raglan was a member. The monitor HMS M28 was also sunk in the same battle.