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| image_caption = ''M33'' in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard, July 2021, restored into [[dazzle camouflage]]. [[HMS Prince of Wales (R09)|HMS ''Prince of Wales'']] is visible in the background. | |||
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| country = [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] | |||
| flag = {{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} | |||
| name = *''M33'' (1915–1924) | |||
* HMS ''Minerva'' (1925–1939) | |||
* Hulk ''C23'' (1939–1945) | |||
* RMAS ''Minerva'' (1945–) | |||
* HMS ''M33'' (1990s) | |||
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| ordered = 15 March 1915 | |||
| builder = Workman Clark, [[Belfast]] for [[Harland & Wolff]] | |||
| yard_number = 489 | |||
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| launched = 22 May 1915 | |||
| completed = 26 June 1915 | |||
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| commissioned = 24 June 1915 | |||
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| status = Museum ship, [[Portsmouth]] | |||
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| class = {{sclass|M29|monitor||ship}} | |||
| displacement = 580 tons deep load | |||
| length = {{convert|177|ft|3|in|m|abbr=on}} | |||
| beam = {{convert|31|ft|m|abbr=on}} | |||
| draught = {{convert|5|ft|11|in|m|abbr=on}} | |||
| draft = | |||
| power = {{Convert|4000|hp|kW|-1|abbr=on}} | |||
| propulsion = *Triple-expansion steam engines | |||
*Twin screws | |||
| speed = {{convert|9.6|kn|km/h|0}} | |||
| range = {{convert|1440|nmi|km|-1}} at {{convert|8|kn|km/h|0}} | |||
| complement = 72 | |||
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| armament = *2 × [[BL 6 inch Mk XII naval gun|BL {{convert|6|in|mm|adj=on|0}} Mk XII guns]] | |||
*1 × [[QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss|QF 6-pounder (57 mm) gun]] | |||
*2 × [[Maxim gun]]s | |||
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'''HMS''' '''''M33''''' is an {{sclass|M29|monitor||ship}} of the [[Royal Navy]]. Built in 1915, she saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia during the [[Allied Intervention in Russia|Allied Intervention]] in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, [[Net laying ship|boom defence]] workshop and floating office, being renamed '''HMS ''Minerva''''' and '''Hulk ''C23''''' during her long life. She passed to Hampshire County Council in the 1980s and was then handed over to the National Museum of the Royal Navy in 2014. A programme of conservation was undertaken to enable her to be opened to the public. HMS ''M33'' is located within [[Portsmouth Historic Dockyard]] and opened to visitors on 7 August 2015 following a service of dedication. She is one of only three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War and the only surviving Allied ship that took part in the [[Gallipoli Campaign]]. | '''HMS''' '''''M33''''' is an {{sclass|M29|monitor||ship}} of the [[Royal Navy]]. Built in 1915, she saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia during the [[Allied Intervention in Russia|Allied Intervention]] in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, [[Net laying ship|boom defence]] workshop and floating office, being renamed '''HMS ''Minerva''''' and '''Hulk ''C23''''' during her long life. She passed to Hampshire County Council in the 1980s and was then handed over to the National Museum of the Royal Navy in 2014. A programme of conservation was undertaken to enable her to be opened to the public. HMS ''M33'' is located within [[Portsmouth Historic Dockyard]] and opened to visitors on 7 August 2015 following a service of dedication. She is one of only three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War and the only surviving Allied ship that took part in the [[Gallipoli Campaign]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 01:01, 11 December 2025
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Construction
M33 was built as part of the rapid ship construction campaign following the outbreak of the First World War by Harland & Wolff, Belfast. Ordered in March 1915, she was launched in May and commissioned in June; an impressive shipbuilding feat, especially considering that numerous other ships of her type were being built in the same period.[1]
First World War
Armed with a pair of Script error: No such module "convert". guns and having a shallow draught, M33 was designed for coastal bombardment. Commanded by Lieutenant Commander Preston-Thomas, her first active operation was the support of the British landings at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli in August 1915. She remained stationed at Gallipoli until the evacuation in January 1916. For the remainder of the war she served in the Mediterranean and was involved in the seizure of the Greek fleet at Salamis Bay on 1 September 1916.
Russian Intervention
M33 next saw service, along with five other monitors (Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".), which were sent to Murmansk in 1919 to relieve the North Russian Expeditionary Force. In June, M33 moved to Archangel and her shallow draught enabled her to travel up the Dvina River to cover the withdrawal of British and White Russian forces.[1] At one time the river level was so low the ship's guns had to be removed and transported by cart, with the crew placing as much weight on her stern to keep the propellers in the water and to push M33 over the mudbanks. M25 and M27 were not so fortunate and had to be scuttled on 16 September 1919 after running aground. M33 safely returned to Chatham in October.
Harbour service and restoration
In 1925 M33 became a mine-laying training ship and was renamed HMS Minerva on 3 February 1925. She went through a number of roles for the remainder of her career including fuelling hulk and boom defence workshop. Her name was changed again in 1939, this time to Hulk C23.[1] In 1946 she became a floating office at the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard at Gosport.
Put up for sale in 1984, in July 1987 she left Portsmouth on the barge Pacific Goliath alongside HMS Trincomalee; that ship had been placed on a cradle to support her wooden hull, but M.33 with her flat bottom could be placed on the barge instead.[2] In Hartlepool early restoration work was undertaken including painting her back to wartime colours and restoration of her superstructure. She later passed to Hampshire County Council and was towed back to Portsmouth to begin further restoration, she was moored in No.1 Basin near HMS Victory.
HMS M.33 is listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, she is now located at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, close to Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"..[1] She was opened to the public for the first time as part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy on 7 August 2015.[3] M33 is one of only three surviving British warships that served during the First World War, the others being Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".,[4] although a number of auxiliary vessels and small craft have also survived.[5]
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External links
- Monitor M33 – Hampshire County Council
- Monitor M33 – History
- National Historic Ships Committee listing for M33
- HMS M33 – National Museum of the Royal Navy
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