HMS M30
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| history | |
| Ship type : | monitor |
| Class: | M29 class |
| Shipyard: | Harland & Wolff , Belfast |
| Keel laying: | March 1915 |
| Launch: | June 23, 1915 |
| Commissioning: | July 1915 |
| Whereabouts: | sunk on May 14, 1916 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement : | 580 ts maximum |
| Length: | 52 m |
| Width: | 9.4 m |
| Draft : | 2.1 m |
| Drive : | Yarrow oil - fired steam boiler 3-way expansion steam engine 2 screws, 400 HP (300 kW ) |
| Fuel supply: | Heating oil |
| Speed : | 10 kn (19 km / h ) |
| Range : | 1,440 nm at 8 kn |
| Crew : | 72 |
| Armament: | 2 x 152-mm - guns (2 * 1) 1 × 6-pounder - Flak |
M30 was a monitor of the M29 class of the British Royal Navy in the First World War .
The availability of ten 6-inch Mk XII guns that the battleships of the Queen Elizabeth class were provided prompted the Admiralty in 1915 for the purchase of five monitors a scaled M15 class . This was designed to accommodate 9.2-inch guns . The HMS M30 and her sister ships were ordered from Harland & Wolff in Belfast in March 1915 . The M30 was laid down in March, launched on June 23, 1915 and put into service in July of the same year.
After the commissioning, the HMS M30 was sent to the Mediterranean . There she came under fire from Turkish coastal batteries while the Allied blockade in the Gulf of Smyrna was being enforced and sank on May 14, 1916.
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 .