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...the [[First World War]] and were commissioned as small [[monitor (warship)|monitors]], seeing extensive service during the war. The '''''Abercrombie''-class monitors''' came about when [[Bethlehem Steel]] in the [[United States]], the contr ...

...web.archive.org/web/20070701141913/http://www.pbenyon1.plus.com/Janes_1919/Monitors/Monitors_2.html |date=1 July 2007 }}</ref> Monitors were designed as stable gun platforms with a shallow [[Draft (hull)|draught ...

{{Short description|1915 class of British monitors}} |Class after=[[Marshal Ney-class monitor|''Marshal Ney'' class]] ...

====[[Monitor (warship)|Monitors]]==== ...derwayPortsideView1915.jpg|thumb|alt=HMS Marshal Ney in 1915|Monitor {{HMS|Marshal Ney|1915|6}} in 1915]] ...

[[File:HMSMarshalNeyUnderwayPortsideView1915.jpg|thumb|right|300px|{{HMS|Marshal Ney}} used a surplus 15-inch gun battleship turret.]] ...SS|Monitor}}. Subsequent vessels of this type were accordingly classed as "monitors".<ref>{{OED|monitor 1.4.b}}</ref> They were designed for shallow waters and ...

...rrets to complete both the [[battleship]], {{HMS|Royal Oak|08|2}}, and the monitors before 1917.<ref>Buxton 2008, c. 8.1</ref> By August 1915, {{HMS|Marshal Ney||2}}, the first of her class, had revealed a very poor performance in h ...

...ut}}) of the monitors {{HMS|Erebus|I02|6}}, {{HMS|Terror|I03|6}} and {{HMS|Marshal Soult|1915|6}}.{{sfn|Newbolt|2009|pp=37–38}} ...a as a screen against U-boats, the minesweepers began operating around the monitors and the covering force cruised in the distance, ready to intercept a German ...

[[File:HMSMarshalNey.jpg|thumb|right|The monitor {{HMS|Marshal Ney|1915|6}}, with her single turret trained to starboard (1915)]] ...specially designed vessels known as [[monitor (warship)#Twentieth century|monitors]]. They carried extremely heavy armament for their size, often a single tur ...

* {{sclass|Marshal Ney|monitor|2}}s (Two ships with two guns each) * {{cite book |last= Buxton |first=Ian Lyon |title=Big Gun Monitors |location=Tynemouth |publisher=World Ship Society |year=1978 |isbn=0-905617 ...

...e removed guns were transferred to the [[monitor (warship)|monitor]] {{HMS|Marshal Ney||2}}.{{sfn|Buxton|loc=c. 4.4, para. 6}} In October 1917, ''Hibernia'' l |title=Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations 1914-1945 ...

...afely fired in action.<ref>{{cite book|last=Buxton|first=Ian|title=Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations, 1914–1945|edition=2nd|publisher=Naval ...three built-up tubes.<ref>{{cite book |last=Buxton|first=Ian|title=Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations, 1914 - 1945|edition=2|publisher=Seafo ...