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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick Laurence Field|nick=Frederick L. Field|appt=17 September, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 396''c''}}|end=16 December, 1915<ref>Field Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 178.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick Laurence Field|nick=Frederick L. Field|appt=17 September, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 396''c''}}|end=16 December, 1915<ref>Field Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 178.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Holmes Borrett|nick=George H. Borrett|appt=16 December, 1915{{NLNov17|p. 395''s''}}|end=15 March, 1916<ref>Command apparently temporarily given to [[Michael Henry Hodges|Hodges]].</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Michael Henry Hodges|nick=Michael H. Hodges|appt=15 March, 1916<ref>Hodges Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 471.</ref>|end=April, 1916<ref>Hodges Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 471.</ref>|note-temporarily replacing [[George Holmes Borrett|Borrett]]}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Michael Henry Hodges|nick=Michael H. Hodges|appt=15 March, 1916<ref>Hodges Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 471.</ref>|end=April, 1916<ref>Hodges Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 471.</ref>|note=temporarily replacing [[George Holmes Borrett|Borrett]]}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Holmes Borrett|nick=George H. Borrett|appt=April, 1916<ref>Resuming service after [[Michael Henry Hodges|Hodges]]'s temporary captaincy.</ref>|end=6 April, 1918<ref>Borrett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 505.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Holmes Borrett|nick=George H. Borrett|appt=April, 1916<ref>Resuming service after [[Michael Henry Hodges|Hodges]]'s temporary captaincy.</ref>|end=6 April, 1918<ref>Borrett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 505.</ref>|note=resuming command}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe|nick=Sidney R. Drury-Lowe|appt=7 April, 1918{{NLDec18|p. 847}}|end=30 August, 1919<ref>Drury-Lowe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 214.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Bingham Powell|nick=George B. Powell|appt=29 August, 1919{{NLDec20|p. 813}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Bingham Powell|nick=George B. Powell|appt=29 August, 1919{{NLDec20|p. 813}}}}

Revision as of 14:41, 21 February 2015

H.M.S. Monarch (1911)
Pendant Number: 55 (1914)
88 (Jan 1918)
60 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Armstrong, Elswick[2]
Ordered: 1909 Programme[3]
Laid down: 1 Apr, 1910[4]
Launched: 30 Mar, 1911[5]
Commissioned: 27 Apr, 1912
Sunk: 20 Jan, 1925[6]
Fate: Expended as target

Boats

In July 1914, the ship was appropriated 42-foot motor launch No. 264, though the boat was not yet delivered from the contractor.[7]

Main Armament

Monarch was built with 13.5-inch Mk II mountings for her guns.[8]

Alterations

In 1913, Monarch was slated as part of the twelve ship order to receive a director along the lines of that developed in Neptune. She was fully equipped sometime in 1914 prior to the start of the war.[9]

In October 1914, the ship was to be given 4 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stoves could not be used for heating them.[10]

By the end of 1915, and probably during 1915, she received one of the first three sets of Walker's Instruments, presumably for trial.[11]

In 1916 or soon thereafter, she would have received Evershed Bearing Indicators for her main battery, as approved in 1916.[12]

Service

Monarch served in the Second Battle Squadron from at least December 1912, remaining there throughout the war. Monarch relieved the squadron's second flagship, Orion, of that role for just a single month in November, 1916. In May 1919, she stayed with her squadron when it was redesignated the Third Battle Squadron.[13]

She completed to full crew at Portsmouth on 27 April, 1912. She was to recommission at Portsmouth on 7 April, 1914.[14]

Great War

Monarch left Portsmouth at 23:30 on 30 October,[15] and rejoined the Second Battle Squadron at Scapa at 11:00 on 3 November.[16]

Jutland

Main article: H.M.S. Monarch at the Battle of Jutland

Post-War

Reduced to Reserve at Portsmouth on 21 October, 1920.[17]

Radio

By the end of 1913, she and the rest of the Second Battle Squadron were all equipped with Battleship Auxiliary W/T sets.[18]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 28.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 28.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 28.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  7. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 122 of 10 July, 1914.
  8. ↑ Hodges. The Big Gun. p. 62.
  9. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 9-10.
  10. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 512 of 16 Oct, 1914.
  11. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. p. 60.
  12. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916. p. 145.
  13. ↑ See Second Battle Squadron and Third Battle Squadron for citations.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 345b.
  15. ↑ Jellicoe Papers. British Library. Add MS 49000. f. 266.
  16. ↑ Jellicoe Papers. British Library. Add MS 49001. f. 7.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 813.
  18. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1913. W/T Appendix, p. 13.
  19. ↑ Napier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 72.
  20. ↑ Hornby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 338.
  21. ↑ Hornby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 338.
  22. ↑ Smith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 295.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 396c.
  24. ↑ Field Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 178.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 395s.
  26. ↑ Command apparently temporarily given to Hodges.
  27. ↑ Hodges Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 471.
  28. ↑ Hodges Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 471.
  29. ↑ Resuming service after Hodges's temporary captaincy.
  30. ↑ Borrett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 505.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 847.
  32. ↑ Drury-Lowe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 214.
  33. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 813.
  34. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

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