H.M.S. Earl of Peterborough (1915)

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H.M.S. Earl of Peterborough (1915)
Pendant Number: M.04 (Apr 1915)
M.09 (Sep 1915)
M.01 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast[2]
Laid down: 16 Jan, 1915[3]
Launched: 28 Aug, 1915[4]
Commissioned: Oct, 1915[5]
Sold: 8 Nov, 1921[6]
Fate: Broken up[7]

H.M.S. Earl of Peterborough was a big gun monitor of the Lord Clive class used by the Royal Navy during the First World War.

Service

Reduced to Shipkeeping Party on 6 June, 1919.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 103.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 45.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 45.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 103.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 45.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 103.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 103.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 765.
  9. Somerville Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/361. f. 361.
  10. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 782.
  11. Somerville Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/361. f. 361.

Bibliography

  • Buxton, Ian L. (1978). Big Gun Monitors: The History of the Design, Construction and Operation of the Royal Navy's Monitors. Tynemouth: World Ship Society. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk)


Lord Clive Class Monitor
  Earl of Peterborough General Craufurd General Wolfe Lord Clive  
  Prince Eugene Prince Rupert Sir John Moore Sir Thomas Picton  
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