The Lord Clive-class monitor, sometimes referred to as the General Wolfe class, were ships designed for shore bombardment and were constructed for the...
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HMS Lord Clive was the lead ship of her class of eight monitors built for the Royal Navy during World War I. Their primary armament was taken from obsolete...
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bombardment vessels, particularly those of the Royal Navy: the Lord Clive-class monitors carried guns firing heavier shells than any other warship ever...
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seeing service throughout the war. The Lord Clive-class monitors, sometimes referred to as the General Wolfe-class, were built to meet the need for more...
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they were removed from her and transferred to the Lord Clive-class monitors General Wolfe and Lord Clive for coast-bombardment duties. Only 85 rounds were...
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HMS General Wolfe (1915) (category Lord Clive-class monitors)
known as Wolfe, was a Lord Clive-class monitor which was built in 1915 for shore-bombardment duties in the First World War. Her class of eight ships was...
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HMS Prince Rupert (category Lord Clive-class monitors)
HMS Prince Rupert was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, an important Royalist commander of...
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term "monitor" included shallow-draft armoured shore bombardment vessels, particularly those of the Royal Navy: the Lord Clive-class monitors carried...
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HMS Sir John Moore (1915) (category Lord Clive-class monitors)
HMS Sir John Moore was one of eight Lord Clive-class monitors built for the Royal Navy in 1915 to conduct shore bombardments during the First World War...
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Exceptional examples, however, most notably the Royal Navy's Lord Clive-class monitors, which could operate in coastal or certain riparian/estuarine situations...
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HMS Sir Thomas Picton (1915) (category Lord Clive-class monitors)
HMS Sir Thomas Picton was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor. Sir Thomas Picton was the only Royal Navy ship ever named for Sir Thomas...
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HMS Prince Eugene (category Lord Clive-class monitors)
HMS Prince Eugene was one of eight Lord Clive-class monitors built for the Royal Navy in 1915 to conduct shore bombardments during the First World War...
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HMS Earl of Peterborough (1915) (category Lord Clive-class monitors)
HMS Earl of Peterborough was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor, named after Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, a British general...
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guns removed from the obsolete Majestic class were mounted in Lord Clive-class monitors for shore bombardment. From 1921 to 1926 two guns from the decommissioned...
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several of the ships were disarmed, their guns going to equip the Lord Clive-class monitors. The disarmed battleships were used as troop ships during the...
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HMS General Craufurd (category Lord Clive-class monitors)
HMS General Craufurd was the one of eight Lord Clive-class monitors built for the Royal Navy during World War I. Their primary armament was taken from...
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than the BL 18 inch Mk I naval guns mounted in the Lord Clive-class monitors General Wolfe and Lord Clive that could range 40,500 yards (37,000 m), used by...
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being destroyed on the stocks in a storm in 1832. HMS Wolfe was a Lord Clive-class monitor, built as Sir James Wolfe and Wolfe before being named HMS General...
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noticeably dark and heavy facial stubble. During the First World War, a Lord Clive class monitor was named for him, HMS General Craufurd.[citation needed] Craufurd...
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forbidden. Her 18-inch guns were reused on the Lord Clive-class monitors General Wolfe and Lord Clive during the war. All three ships were in the 1st...
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completed as an aircraft carrier and her guns were fitted to the Lord Clive-class monitors, seeing service in World War I. This term was still in use in...
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Rupert of 1915 was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor. HMS Rupert (1929) was a Rainbow-class submarine ordered in February 1929 but suspended...
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guns, which had much greater mobility, or naval monitors (two of the British Lord Clive class monitors were fitted with an 18-inch (460 mm) gun, and HMS...
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the vessels were slow and thus unsuitable for naval combat. Two Lord Clive-class monitors were fitted with BL 18-inch Mk I naval guns, the largest guns...
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Parliament HMS General Craufurd, a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor This page lists people with the surname Craufurd. If an internal...
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The Marshal Ney class was a class of monitor built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. The need for monitors for shelling enemy positions from...
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The Abercrombie class of monitors served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. The four ships in this class came about when the contracted supplier...
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HMS Furious (47) (category Courageous-class aircraft carriers)
forbidden. Her 18-inch guns were reused on the Lord Clive-class monitors General Wolfe and Lord Clive during the war. Furious was laid down on 8 June...
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Ney-class monitor), HMS Lord Clive, HMS Prince Eugene, HMS General Craufurd (Lord Clive-class monitors), HMS M24, HMS M26 and HMS M21 (M15-class monitors)...
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HMS Victorious (1895) (category Majestic-class battleships)
her 12-inch (305-mm) guns were removed for use aboard the new Lord Clive-class monitors Prince Rupert and General Wolfe. Between September 1915 and February...
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