H.M.S. M.24 (1915)

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HMS M.24
Career Details
Pendant Number: M.24
Builder: Raylton Dixon, Middlesbrough
Ordered: February, 1915
Laid down: March, 1915
Launched: 9 August, 1915
Commissioned: 4 October, 1915
Sunk: 29 September, 1936
Fate: Sunk as target ship
General Characteristics
Displacement: 610 tons (deep)
Length: 177 feet 3 inches
Beam: 31 feet
Draught: 6 feet 7½ inches
Propulsion: 4 Shaft Campbell 4 cylinder paraffin engine, 640 bhp
Speed: 11 knots
Range: 2,200 miles at 9 knots
Complement: 69
Armament (1918):
  • 1 × BL 7.5"/50 Mark IV gun on a single mounting (May, 1916)
  • 1 × QF 3"/45 20 cwt HA gun on a HA mounting
  • 1 × QF 12 pdr 12 cwt Mark II HA gun on a PI mounting
Armament (as designed):
  • 1 × BL 9.2"/31.5 Mark VI on a single mounting
  • 1 × QF 12 pdr 12 cwt Mark II HA gun on a PI mounting
  • 1 × QF 6 pdr/8 cwt Mark I guns on single Mark IV HA mounting
  • 2 × MG .303 Maxim

HMS M.24, later the MV Satoe, was a coastal monitor of the M Class. Built in 1915 in answer to the growing need for heavily armed, shallow-draft vessels, she was equipped with guns salvaged from vessels paying off. Built by Raylton Dixon of Middlesbrough, she completed with 4 unique paraffin engines but without her 9.2 inch gun which was sent to France. Earmarked for the Dover Patrol, she was sent to the Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth for a new 7.5 inch gun and mounting and thence began patrol work with the larger monitors.

At the end of 1918 M.24 refitted at Portsmouth and was sent to join the White Sea Squadron at Archangel. As the Allied position there deteriorated throughout 1919, along with others of her class she stood by to give assistance where necessary. She left for Britain under tow in September, 1919. She was promptly put on the sale list and the following year sold to a subisidiary of Royal Dutch Shell for conversion to an oil tanker. Having served in the Dutch Antilles, she was sunk as target ship in 1936.

Construction

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