HMS Marshal Ney
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 HMS Marshal Ney, August 1915 |
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| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Marshal Ney |
| Builder: | Palmers, Newcastle |
| Launched: | June 17, 1915 |
| Commissioned: | August 1915 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1957 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Marshal Ney class |
| Displacement: | 6,670 tons (6,900 tons full load) |
| Length: | 355 feet (108.2 m) |
| Beam: | 90 feet (27.4 m) |
| Draught: | 10.5 feet (3.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | MAN diesel engines, 2 shafts, 1,500 hp |
| Speed: | 9 knots (as designed), 6 knots (actual) |
| Complement: | 187 |
| Armament: |
(As built) 2×15-inch guns, 2×12 pounder (76mm) QF Mk I guns |
| Armour: | 4 inch belt armour, 8 inch barbette armour, 13 inch turret armour |
HMS Marshal Ney was a Royal Navy Marshal Ney class monitor constructed in the opening years of the First World War. Laid down as HMS M13, she was named for the French general of the Napoleonic Wars Marshal Michel Ney.
Designed for inshore operations along the sandbank strewn Belgian coastline, HMS Marshal Soult was equipped with two massive 15" naval guns. Originally, these guns were to have been stripped from one of the battlecruisers HMS Renown and HMS Repulse after they were redesigned. However the guns were not ready, and guns intended for the battleship HMS Ramillies were used in lieu.
The diesel engines used by the ships were a constant source of technical difficulty, restricting their use. Marshal Ney in particular was, in the words of Jane's Fighting Ships, "practically a failure", on account of her MAN diesel engines being so unreliable.
In 1916, her 15" barbette was stripped off and given to HMS Erebus, which was launched in the same year. HMS Marshal Ney was then rearmed with a single 9.2 inch gun and four 6 inch guns, for service as a guardship for The Downs. She engaged German destroyers during a raid on Ramsgate in April 1917.
During 1919, HMS Marshal Ney was used as a base ship at Queensborough, before being disarmed and becoming a depot ship at Fort Blockhouse from 1920. Renamed HMS Vivid in June, 1922, she then served as a stoker training ship until 1957. She was again renamed HMS Drake in January 1934, and HMS Alaunia II in 1947. She arrived at the Ward shipyards at Milford Haven on 6 October 1957 for breaking up.
[edit] References
- 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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