Royal Navy — Monitor class
Roberts class monitor
Roberts
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Monitor
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- In commission
- 1 April 1941
- Preceded by
- Erebus-class monitor
- Builders
- John Brown
- Vickers-Armstrongs
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 7,973 long tons (8,101 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 9,150 long tons (9,297 t)
- Length
- 113.69 m (373 ft)
- Speed
- 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h, 14.4 mph)
- Complement
- 442
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 2 × BL 15-inch Mk I guns in a single turret
- 8 × 4 in AA guns (4 × 2)
- 16 × QF 2-pdr "pom-pom"s (1 × 8, 2 × 4)
- 20 × Oerlikon 20mm guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Abercrombie (F109) | F109 | 1943 | Scrapped 1954 |
| HMS Roberts (F40) | F40 | 1941 | Scrapped 1965 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Roberts class monitor on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.