HMS M20
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Name | HMS M20 |
Builder | Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. |
Laid down | 1 March 1915 |
Launched | 11 May 1915 |
Fate | Sold 29 January 1920 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | M15 class monitor |
Displacement | 540 tons |
Length | 177 ft 3 in (54.03 m) |
Beam | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
Draught | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 11 knots |
Complement | 69 |
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HMS M20 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor.
Design[]
Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, M20's primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk VI gun removed from the Edgar-class cruiser HMS Gibraltar.[1] In addition to her 9.2-inch gun she also possessed one 12 pounder and one six-pound anti-aircraft gun. She was equipped with a four-shaft Bolinder two-cylinder semi-diesel engine with 640 horsepower that allowed a top speed of eleven knots. The monitor's crew consisted of sixty-nine officers and men.
Construction[]
HMS M20 ordered in March, 1915, as part of the War Emergency Programme of ship construction. She was laid down at the Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd shipyard at Govan in March 1915, launched on 11 May 1915, and completed in July 1915.
World War 1[]
M20 served within the Mediterranean from August 1915 to December 1918. She did not return to Home Waters, paying off at Malta.
Disposal[]
M20 was sold on 29 January 1920 for mercantile service as an oil tanker and renamed 'Lima'.
References[]
- ^ Randal Gray, ed. (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships, 1906–1921. Conway Maritime Press. p. 48. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Dittmar, F. J. & Colledge, J. J., "British Warships 1914–1919", (Ian Allan, London, 1972), ISBN 0-7110-0380-7
- M15-class monitors
- 1915 ships
- World War I monitors of the United Kingdom
- Royal Navy ship names