HMS M28
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 The sister ship M 21 |
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| Overview | |
| Type | monitor |
| units | 14th |
| Shipyard |
Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. , Middlesbrough , BN ° 606 |
| Keel laying | March 1, 1915 |
| Launch | June 28, 1915 |
| delivery | 1915 |
| period of service |
1915-1918 |
| Commissioning | . August 1915 |
| Whereabouts | Sunk on January 20, 1918 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
540 ts |
| length |
54.06 m (177 ft 3 in) |
| width |
9.46 m (31 ft) |
| Draft |
2.6 m (6 ft 9 in) |
| crew |
69 men |
| drive |
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| speed |
11 kn |
| Armament |
1 × 9.2 in (234 mm) BL Mk VI cannon |
| Sister ships |
HMS M 15 to HMS M 27 |
The HMS M 28 was a monitor of the Royal Navy of the M15 class . On January 20, 1918, she was sunk in front of Imbros by the battle cruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim , the former SMS Goeben and the small cruiser Midilli , formerly SMS Breslau .
Building history
The HMS M 28 was the last of fourteen M-15-class monitors of the Royal Navy, all built in 1915. They were ordered and designed in March 1915 as part of the Emergency War Program . They were supposed to intervene in land battles from the coast and, in addition, existing 9.2-inch (23.4 cm) BL Mk VI L31.5 gun turrets of the Edgar- class cruisers or 9.2 "-Mk.X-234 mm reserve turrets - L / 47 of the Drake- class and the Cressy- class received as main armament.
The first four monitors, which were built by William Gray & Co. in Hartlepool , received the towers of the type Mk.X. The remaining ten ships were all built at Sir Raylton Dixon and Company in Middlesbrough and fitted with Mk.VI towers.
In addition, the M 28 had a 12 pounder (76 mm) rapid fire gun and a 6 pounder (57 mm) anti-aircraft gun .
The class also had different types of propulsion. The HMS M 21 and M 22 had conventional triple expansion steam engines and the HMS M 24 had a 4-cylinder Campbell paraffin engine. Like the others, HMS M 28 received a Bolinder 4-cylinder hot -head engine (semi-diesel) with 640 hp, which gave it a speed of eleven knots. The crew of the monitor consisted of 69 men.
Mission history
The keel-laying of the HMS M 28 took place on March 1, 1915 at the Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd shipyard in Middlesbrough, where it was launched on June 28, 1915.
Her first mission was the bombardment of Dedeağaç in Bulgaria (today Alexandroupoli , Greece) on October 21, 1915 together with the cruiser HMS Theseus of the Edgar class, the cruiser HMS Doris of the Eclipse class and the sister ship HMS M 15 after the Allies declared war on Bulgaria , which had joined the Central Powers on October 14, 1915 in the fight against Serbia .
The M 28 spent the majority of its service life during the First World War with the British Aegean Squadron and shelled Turkish positions. On January 20, 1918, she was stationed in Kusu Bay on the island of Imbros together with the HMS Raglan and the destroyers HMS Lizard and Tigress when they were attacked by the Turkish ships Midilli ex SMS Breslau and Yavuz Sultan Selim ex SMS Goeben . Lizard and Tigress tried unsuccessfully to protect the monitors with a smoke curtain, and attempts to approach the attackers within torpedo range were unsuccessful.
The formerly German ships sank both monitors with very precise salvos in a short time, their magazines were hit and exploded. M 28 sank burning in Kusu Bay ( 40 ° 14 ' N , 25 ° 58' E ), killing eleven men. The rest of the crew was saved by Allied vehicles.
literature
- Frederick J. Dittmar, James J. Colledge: British Warships. 1914-1919. Ian Allen, London 1972, ISBN 0-7110-0380-7 .
- Randal Gray (Ed.): Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships. 1906-1921. Conway Maritime Press, London 1985, ISBN 0-85177-245-5 .
- John Moore: Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I. Military Press, New York NY 1990, ISBN 0-517-03375-5 .
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Footnotes
- ↑ According to other sources, the monitors M.16 , M.19 , M.29 instead of M 15 and M 28 were involved