HMS Gorgon (1914)
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| Class and type: | Gorgon-class monitor |
| Name: | HMS Gorgon |
| Builder: | Armstrong Whitworth |
| Launched: | 9 June 1914 |
| Fate: | Scrapped August 1928 |
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| Displacement: | 4,900 tons (4,445 t) |
| Length: | 310 ft (94 m) |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
| Complement: | 305 |
| Armament: | Two x 9.2in Mk XII guns Four 6in Mk XVIII guns Two 3in anti-aircraft guns Four 2pdr anti-aircraft guns |
| Armour: | 7in-3in (belt) 4in-3in (bulkheads) 8in (turret faces) 8in (conning tower) 2.5in-1in (decks) |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Gorgon.
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. HMS Gorgon was launched on 1914-06-09 and was taken over by the Royal Navy. 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. The two ships did not enter service until the summer of 1918.
HMS Gorgon entered service at Dover in June 1918. She fired the last shots against German batteries on the Belgian coast. After the war, several attempts were made to sell her, but she was eventually used as a target ship.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Gorgon class monitors, <http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_gorgon_class_monitors.html>. Retrieved on 30 December 2007
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