HMS Monmouth

Type:
Armored Cruiser
Class:
Builder:
London & Glasgow Engine & Iron
Shipbuilding Company
Glasgow, Scotland
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
November 13, 1901
Keel Laid:
August 29, 1899
Commissioned:

December 2, 1903
Fate:
Sunk Nov. 1, 1914 at the Battle of Coronel by SMS Scharnhorst, SMS Gneisenau and
SMS Nürnberg.

Location: South Pacific, 25 miles west of Coronel, Chile.

At least 738 crewmen killed, no survivors.
(Roll of Honour)




Builder's Data
Page published Nov. 15, 2008