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[Kopfdorfer]

The Monitor was historically a class of relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armoured but carried disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s until the end of World War II, and saw their final use by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War.

In WW2, the British Royal Navy fielded two 2 ship classes of monitor, The Erebus Class featuring WW1 veterans HMS Erebus and HMS Terror,

HMS Erebus



HMS Terror

and the new heavier Roberts Class featuring HMS Roberts and HMS Abercrombie.

HMS Roberts
HMS Abercrombie

The smaller Royal Navy monitors were mostly scrapped following World
War I, but HMS Erebus and HMS Terror survived to fight in World War II. When requirement for shore support returned, two large new Roberts class monitors, Roberts and Abercrombie, were constructed and fitted with 15-inch (380 mm) guns from older battleships.


HMS Roberts DDay

Allied monitors saw service in the Far East, and in the Mediterranean in support of the British Eighth Army's desert and Italian campaigns. They were part of the offshore bombardment for the Invasion of Normandy in 1944 and the followup assaults to recapture the Channel Ports and the Scheldt.



Plans HMS Roberts
Profile HMS Roberts



Plans HMS Abercrombie
HMS Abercrombie Profiles

Cross Section Comparison

Erebus underway



Specifications:

Erebus Class
Name:    Erebus
Builders:    Harland and Wolff
Operators:     Royal Navy
In service:    1916 - 1946
In commission:    August 1916
Lost:    One
General characteristics
Type:    Monitor
Displacement:    8,000 tons (standard)
8,450 tons (full load)
Length:    405 ft (123 m)
Beam:    88 ft (27 m)
Draught:    11 ft 8 in (3.56 m)
Propulsion:    4 oil fired boilers, 2 shaft reciprocating engines, 6,000 hp (4,500 kW)
Speed:    12 knots
Complement:    204, rising to 315 later
Armament:    

(Original):

    * 2 × 15-inch /42 Mk 1 guns in a single turret
    * 2 × single 6-inch (150 mm) guns
    * 4 × single 3-inch (76 mm) anti-aircraft (AA) guns

(After refit):

    * 2 × 15-inch /42 Mk 1 guns in a single turret
    * 8 × single mount 4 inch guns
    * 2 × single mount 3-inch AA
    * 2 × quadruple .50-inch (13 mm) Vickers machine gun AA mounts

Armour:    Belt and bulkheads: 4 inch
Barbette: 8 inch
Turret: 13 inch
Deck: 4 inch
Anti-torpedo bulges: 9 ft (2.7 m) wide


Roberts Class
General characteristics (Roberts & Abercrombie[1])
Type:    monitor
Displacement:    Roberts:
7,973 tons (Standard)
9,150 tons (Full load)
Abercrombie:
8,536 tons (Standard)
9,717 tons (Full load)
Length:    373 ft (114 m)
Beam:    89 ft (27 m)
Draught:    Roberts: 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Abercrombie: 14 ft 5 in (4.39 m)
Propulsion:    2 shaft, Parsons steam turbines, 2 boilers, 4,800 hp
Speed:    12.5 knots (14.4 mph)
Complement:    442 - 460
Armament:    2 × 15-inch/42 Mk 1 guns in a single turret
8 × 4-inch AA guns (4 × 2)
16 × 2-pdr "pom-pom"s (1 × 8, 2 × 4)
20 × 20 mm guns
Armour:    Turret: 13 inch
Barbette: 8 inch
Belt: 4-5 inches

Bang-Bang!

Kopfdorfer

[asheshouse]

Anything on Erebus and Terror would be interesting.
The only drawings I have found lack detail.

[melissa]

Book

[boogabooga]

Really? You want to single me out? Classy.

What follows is my opinion, I don't want to overstep into the moderator's role.
Enthusiasm is great, but you've started half of the threads on the first two pages of the request forum. It's no secret that Il-2 is lacking in ships. Even very large, important ships. But if you start going into oddities, gunboats, and small escort vessels, the list of missing ships is huge. Have you taken it as your personal challenge to start a new thread a day to list every single one?

Perhaps if you lumped all your requests into seperate posts on only a few themed threads (say light escorts, Royal Navy, etc.), it would make the forum easier to browse, put all your ideas together, and make it less likely that your stuff will get thrown out in the next forum clean-up. 

Anyway, that's all the more I'm going to say about that. No hard feelings.   

[Kopfdorfer]

No Boogabooga,

                      I'm not taking it as a personal challenge to post daily, and I don't take offense at your comments ; in fact I am quite sensitive to the fact that I don't mod - I don't have the requisite skills, and I am of a vintage that finds computers challenging. Furthermore I am currently unemployed, and without a computer that can handle IL2, so I cannot fly, build missions or campaigns.
                 As I said previously, I figure that since I can't mod, and WW2 is an area of interest - centered on my interest in WW2 aircraft since I was a lad -some many years ago...that ideas and comments are all I have to offer here.
If you find my posts uninteresting you don't have to read them. If you feel that they shouldn't be in the Requests forum tell and admin and have them moved. I am writing these because they interest me and I hope they will interest others. That's all.
I appreciate your comments. Make them anytime.



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