Gorgon class monitor
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 HMS Gorgon |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Gorgon |
| Builders: | Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick |
| Operators: |  Royal Navy |
| In service: | - 1922 |
| In commission: | 1918 |
| Completed: | Two |
| Lost: | One |
| General characteristics (Gorgon and Glatton[1]) | |
| Type: | Monitor |
| Displacement: | 5,700 tons (Standard) 5,746 tons (Full load) |
| Length: | 310 ft (94 m) |
| Beam: | 73 ft 7 in (22.4 m) |
| Draught: | 16 ft 4 in (5.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft Triple Expansion, 4,000 ihp |
| Speed: | 12 knots |
| Complement: | 305 |
| Armament: | 2 × 9.2-inch (23.4cm) Mk XIII guns 4× 6-inch (15.2cm) Mk XVIII guns 2 × 3 inch (76 mm) AA guns 4 ×2 pounder (40mm) AA guns (Glatton 4× 3 pounder (47mm), 2 × 2pounder AA in lieu of 4 ×2 pounder (40mm) AA guns) |
| Armour: | Turret: 8 inch Barbette: 8 inch Belt: 7 inch |
The Gorgon class monitors were a two ship class of monitor in service with the Royal Navy. HMS Gorgon and her sister ship HMS Glatton were originally built as coastal defence ships for the Norwegian Navy, as HNoMS Nidaros and HNoMS Bjørgvin respectively.
On the outbreak of World War One, both ships were under construction at Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick. The Royal Navy bought both ships for ₤370,000 each, for conversion to monitors. Work began on converting the ships for British use in January 1915 but was suspended in May of the same year and did not resume until September 1917. Conversion works included fitting of dual coal & oil-fired boilers, as well as British standard guns and anti-torpedo bulges. The two ships did not enter service until the summer of 1918.
- built by Armstrong Whitworth
- Launched June 9, 1914
- Commissioned May 1918
- Served with the Dover Monitor Squadron, after the war paid off into reserve and sold August 28, 1928 for breaking up
- built by Armstrong Whitworth
- Launched August 8, 1914
- Commissioned August 31, 1918
- suffered internal explosion September 16, 1918. Wreck broken up 1926
[edit] References
- ^ Conway, All The World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921
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- Dittmar, F. J. & Colledge, J. J., "British Warships 1914-1919", (Ian Allen, London, 1972), ISBN 0-7110-0380-7
- Gray, Randal (ed), "Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1906-1921", (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1985), ISBN 0-85177-245-5
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