M29 class
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| Type: | monitor |
| Class: | M29 class |
| Units: | built: five losses: one preserved: one |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement | Standard 535 ts, max. 580 ts |
| length | over everything: 52 m |
| width | 9.4 m |
| Draft | 2.1 m |
| Propulsion system | Yarrow oil - fired steam boiler , 3-way expansion steam engine 400 HP (300 kW) on 2 screws |
| speed | 10 kn (19 km / h) |
| Driving range | 1440 nm at 8 kn |
| Armament | 2 × 152-mm - L / 45 gun (2 * 1) 1 × 6-pounder - Flak 1 × 3- inch - Flak for M31 and M33 |
| Armor | Magazines: 25-75 mm Belt: 57 mm Deck: 25 mm Bulkheads: 25 mm |
| crew | 75 |
The M29 class was a class of five British monitors , all of which were built and launched during the course of 1915. The ships were a scaled-down version of the M15 class .
The trigger for the construction was the availability of ten 152 mm guns, which were originally intended for the battleships of the Queen Elizabeth class , but were not used there for structural reasons. The ships were procured for shipbuilding with funds from the Emergency War Program. The construction contract went to the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast in March 1915 , which in turn subcontracted the two ships M32 and M33 to Workman Clark Limited .
Ships
- HMS M29 - launched May 22, 1915, later renamed HMS Medusa and HMS Talbot , sold in 1946.
- HMS M30 - launched on June 23, 1915, sunk on May 14, 1916.
- HMS M31 - launched on June 24, 1915, scrapped 1948.
- HMS M32 - launched May 22, 1915, sold in January 1920.
- HMS M33 - launched on May 22, 1915, one of the still existing warships from the First World War . She is in dry dock near HMS Victory at Portsmouth Naval Base .
literature
- James J. Colledge, Ben Warlow: Ships of the Royal Navy. The complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th century to the present. New revised edition. Chatham, London 2006, ISBN 1-86176-281-X .
- John Moore: Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I. Military Press, New York NY 1990, ISBN 0-517-03375-5 .
Web links
Commons : M29 class - collection of images, videos and audio files
