The M29 class comprised five monitors of the Royal Navy, all built and launched during 1915.
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Name | M29-class monitor |
Operators | Royal Navy |
Preceded by | M15 class |
Succeeded by | Erebus class |
Completed | 5 |
Lost | 1 |
Preserved | 1 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Monitor |
Displacement | 535 tons |
Length | 170 ft (52 m) |
Beam | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
Draught | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h) |
Complement | 75 |
Armament |
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The ships of this class were ordered in March, 1915, as part of the Emergency War Programme of ship construction. The contract for construction was granted to Harland & Wolff, Belfast, who sub-contracted the construction of M32 and M33 to Workman, Clark and Company.
The main armament of the ships, two 6-inch Mk XII guns, came from guns originally intended for the five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships which became surplus when their aft casemate mountings turned out to be unworkable and were dispensed with.
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