HMS Terror (I03)
Service
- as Terror22 July 1916 — 24 February 1941542 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Terror
- Pennant / hull number
- I03
- Builder
- Harland & Wolff, Belfast
- Laid down
- 26 October 1915
- Launched
- 18 May 1916
- Commissioned
- 22 July 1916
- Fate
- Scuttled 24 February 1941 (1941)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 8,450 long tons (8,586 t)
- Length
- 123.44 m (405 ft) OA
- Beam
- 26.82 m (88 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 12 knots (22.2 km/h, 13.8 mph)
- Range
- 2,480 nmi (4,593 km)
- Complement
- 204
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
HMS Terror was a Erebus-class monitor of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number I03. Her keel was laid at Harland & Wolff, Belfast on 26 October 1915. Launched on 18 May 1916, she entered service on 22 July 1916.
She was one of two ships of her class. The class followed the Marshal Ney-class monitor and was succeeded by the Roberts-class monitor.
She displaced 8,450 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 204.
Her main battery was two 381 mm (15 in) guns in one twin mountings. Her machinery developed 6,000 ihp.
She was in commission for 542 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 24 February 1941, at 32°59′N 22°32′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 2 × screws; 2 × triple-expansion steam engines
- Power
- 4 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
- 6000 ihp
- Armament
- 1 × twin 15 in guns
- 1 × single 3 in AA gun
- 2 × single 12 pdr, 3 in guns
- Armour
- Deck: 1 to 4 in
- Bulkheads: 4 in
- Barbettes: 8 in
- Turret: 5 to 13 in
- Conning tower: 6 in
1939 refit
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
- Armament
- 1 × twin 15 in guns
- 6 × single 4 in guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Terror (I03) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Devonport Dockyard Constructive Department — This photograph FL 3724 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) Originally uploaded to EN Wikipedia as en:Image:HMS Terror (I03).jpg by en:User:Pkoz 12 March 2008 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons