HMS Erebus (I02)
Service
- as HMS Erebus2 September 1916 — July 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Erebus
- Pennant / hull number
- I02
- Builder
- Harland & Wolff, Govan
- Laid down
- 12 October 1915
- Launched
- 19 June 1916
- Commissioned
- 2 September 1916
- Fate
- Scrapped July 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 7,200 long tons (7,316 t)
- Length
- 123.44 m (405 ft)
- Beam
- 26.82 m (88 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 12 knots (22.2 km/h, 13.8 mph)
- Complement
- 226
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
HMS Erebus was a Erebus-class monitor in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number I02. Harland & Wolff, Govan laid her keel on 12 October 1915. She entered service on 2 September 1916, having been launched on 19 June 1916.
Her class ran to two ships. The class followed the Marshal Ney-class monitor and was succeeded by the Roberts-class monitor.
Displacement was 7,200 long tons. She measured 123.4 m (405 ft) long with a beam of 26.8 m (88 ft). Her designed speed was 12 knots, and she carried a complement of 226.
Her main battery was two 381 mm (15 in) guns. Her machinery developed 6,000 ihp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in July 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × Reciprocating engines
- 2 screws
- Power
- 6000 ihp
- Armament
- 2 × 15 in guns (1x2)
- 8 × 4 in guns (8x1)
- 2 × 12-pounder anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × 3 in anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns
- 4 × .303 in machine guns
- Armour
- Bulkheads: 4 in
- Barbettes: 8 in
- Turrets: 13 in
- Magazines: 4 in
- Conning tower: 6 in
- Main deck: 2 - 4 in
- Torpedo protection bulges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Erebus (I02) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 693 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) Originally uploaded to EN Wikipedia as en:Image:HMS Erebus I02.jpg by en:User:Pkoz 12 March 2008 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons