Royal Navy — Monitor class
Erebus-class monitor
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 1 Lost
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Monitor
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- In commission
- August 1916
- Preceded by
- Marshal Ney-class monitor
- Succeeded by
- Roberts-class monitor
- Builders
- Harland & Wolff
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 8,000 long tons (8,128 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 8,450 long tons (8,586 t)
- Length
- 123.44 m (405 ft)
- Speed
- 12 knots (22.2 km/h, 13.8 mph)
- Complement
- 204
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
- Armament
- Original:
- 2 × 15-inch /42 Mk 1 guns in a single turret
- 2 × single 6 in guns
- 4 × single 3 in anti-aircraft guns
- After refit:
- 2 × 15-inch /42 Mk 1 guns in a single turret
- 8 × single mount 4 inch BL Mk IX guns
- 2 × single mount 3 inch anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × quadruple .50 in Vickers machine gun AA mounts
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Erebus (I02) | I02 | 1916 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Terror (I03) | I03 | 1916 | Scuttled 1941 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Erebus-class monitor on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.