Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present by J. J. Colledge & Ben Warlow

Author:J. J. Colledge & Ben Warlow [Colledge, J. J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS027150
Publisher: Casemate / Greenhill
Published: 2010-02-28T05:00:00+00:00

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M.1–14. Original designation of fourteen monitors built in 1915 and given, respectively, the following names before completion: ABERCROMBIE, HAVELOCK, RAG LAN, ROBERTS, SIR JOHN MOORE, LORD CLIVE, GENERAL CRAUFURD, EARL OF PETER BOROUGH, GENERAL WOLFE, PRINCE RUPERT, PRINCE EUGENE, SIR THOMAS PICTON, MARSHAL NEY and MARSHAL SOULT.

‘M’ class coastal monitors 540 tons, 170 × 31ft (except M.29–33, 535 tons), 1-9.2in, 1-3in (M.15–22 and M.28); 1-7in, 2-3in (M.23–25); 1-7.5in, 1-3in, 1-12pdr (M.26); 1-4.7in, 2-3in (M.27);. 2-6in, 1-6pdr (M.29–33).

M.15 Gray 28.4.1915. Sunk 11.11.17 UC.38 off Gaza.

M.16 Gray 7.5.1915. Sold 29.1.20, = Tiga. BU 6.1953, Sydney.

M.17 Gray 12.5.1915. Sold 12.5.20, = Toedjoe. BU Canada 1939.

M.18 Gray 15.5.1915. Sold 29.1.20, = Anam. Sunk off Corsica 14.4.1943.

M.19 Raylton Dixon 4.5.1915. Sold 12.5.20, = Delapan.

M.20 Raylton Dixon 11.5.1915. Sold 29.1.20, = Lima. BU Spezia 3.1968.

M.21 Raylton Dixon 27.5.1915. Sunk 20.10.18 mine off Ostend.

M.22 Raylton Dixon 10.6.1915. M/L 1919. = MEDEA 1.12.25. Sold 12.38 Cashmore; stranded 22.1.39 under tow near Padstow.

M.23 Raylton Dixon 18.6.1915. = CLAVERHOUSE 16.12.22, RNVR drillship. Arr. 21.4.59 Charles town for BU.

M.24 Raylton Dixon 9.8.1915. Sold 29.1.20, = Satoe. Sold Dutch Navy amd sunk 29.9.36 target West Indies.

M.25 Raylton Dixon 24.7.1915. Blown up 16.9.19 Dvina River to avoid capture (unable to cross bar).

M.26 Raylton Dixon 24.8.1915. Sold 29.1.20, = Doewa BU Suez 6.1939.

M.27 Raylton Dixon 8.9.1915. Blown up 16.9.19 with M.25.

M.28 Raylton Dixon 28.6.1915. Sunk 20.1.18 gunfire from German GOEBEN off Imbros.

M.29 Harland & Wolff 22.5.1915. M/L 1919. = MEDUSA 1.12.25, depot ship TALBOT 1.9.41, = MEDWAY II 1943, = MEDUSA 21.9.44. Sold 9.9.46; BU 1947 Do ver Industries.

M.30 Harland & Wolff 23.6.1915. Sunk 13.5.16 shore batteries Gulf of Smyrna.

M.31 Harland & Wolff 24.6.15. M/L 1919. = MEL POMENE 1.12.25, = MENELAUS 23.12.1940. BU 1.1948 Rees, Llanelly.

M.32 Workman Clark (ex-Harland & Wolff) 22.3.15. Sold 29.1.20, = Ampat. BU Spezia 1.1952.

M.33 Workman Clark (ex-Harland & Wolff) 22.5.15. = MINERVA 1. 12.25; hulked 1940, = C.23; To Hartlepool for restoration 24.7.1987, on display Portsmouth 1999.

‘M’ class submarines. 1,600 tons, 296(oa) (M.3, M.4, 305(oa) × 24.5ft, 1-12in, 1-3in, 4-TT.

M.1 (ex-K.18, renamed 1917) Vickers 9.7.1917. Sunk 12.11.25 off Start Point, rammed by SS Vidar?.

M.2 (ex-K.19, renamed 1917) Vickers 15.4.1919. Fitted at Chatham 4.28 to carry seaplane (12in gun removed). Sunk 26.1.32 off Portland.

M.3 (ex-K.20, renamed 1917) Armstrong 19.10.1918. Minelayer 1927 (guns removed). Sold 2.32 Cashmore, arrived Newport 13.4.32 for BU.

M.4 (ex-K.21, renamed 1917) Armstrong. Laid down 1917. Hull sold 30.11.21 to builder.

‘M’ class controlled minelayers 300 tons, 110 × 26.5ft, 1-20mm, 10 mines.

M.I Philip, Dartmouth 6.7.1939. = MINER I 1942, = MINSTREL 7.9.1962. Sold 1967.

M.II Philip, Dartmouth, 18.8.1939. = MINER II 1942, = GOSSAMER 1949. Sunk 18.3.70 off Portland as target.

M.III Philip, Dartmouth, 16.11.1939. = MINER III 1942. Sold 2.77; BU Sittingbourne.

M.IV Philip, Dartmouth, 6.8.1940. = MINER IV 1942. BU 5.64.

M.V Philip, Dartmouth, 2.11.1940. = MINER V 1942, = BRITANNIC (cable layer –q.v.) 1960. RAF target 6.6.79.

M.VI Philip, Dartmouth, 7.2.1942. = MINER VI 1942. Sold mercantile 16.8.88 Malta = Minor Eagle, = Jylland II, = Cominoland. Sunk as artifical reef off Gozo 12.08.2006.

M.VII (i) Singapore. Ordered 3.10.40. Destroyed on stocks 2.

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