HMS M32

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Royal Navy
history
Ship type : monitor
Class: M29 class
Shipyard: Workman Clark Limited , Belfast
Keel laying: March 1915
Launch: May 22, 1915
Commissioning: June 1915
Whereabouts: sold January 29, 1920
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 x 1)
1 × 6-pounder - Flak

M32 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 ships were ordered from Harland & Wolff in Belfast in March 1915 , but the order for the M32 and M33 was subcontracted to the neighboring shipyard Workman Clark Limited . The M32 was laid down in March, launched on May 22, 1915 and put into service in June of the same year.

After its commissioning, the HMS M32 was sent to the Mediterranean and remained in service there until March 1919. From May to September 1919 she supported British and White Army movements in the White Sea before returning to Great Britain.

On January 29, 1920, the HMS M32 was sold for use as an oil tanker and renamed Ampat .

literature

  • FJ Dittmar, JJ Colledge: British Warships 1914-1919. Ian Allan, London 1972, ISBN 0-7110-0380-7 .
  • Randal Gray: Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1906-1921. Conway Maritime Press, London 1985, ISBN 0-85177-245-5 .
  • John. Young: A Dictionary of Ships of the Royal Navy of the Second World War. Patrick Stephens Ltd, Cambridge 1975, ISBN 0-85059-332-8 .
  • HT Lenton, JJ Colledge: Warships of World War II. Ian Allan, London 1973, ISBN 0-7110-0403-X .