Monmouth Class Cruisers Class Overview

Dimensions, machinery and performance
Length:
463' 5"
Engines:
2 four cylinder triple expansion
Beam:
66'
Boilers:
31 (a) (coal fired)
Draft:
25'
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
9,800
HP:
22,000
Speed:
23 knots
Crew:
678
Range:
N/A
Construction notes:
(a):
Niclausse in Berwick and Suffolk, Babcock in Cornwall, Belleville in the others.


Armament as built
Guns
Number
Type
Arrangement
14
6"/45 (152mm)
2 twin turrets
10 in casemates

10
3"/50 (76.2mm) 12 pounders
Single mounts
Torpedo tubes
2
18" (457mm)
Submerged broadside


Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
London & Glasgow Engine & Iron
Shipbuilding Company
Glasgow, Scotland

Nov. 13, 1901
Dec. 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.
(36.58S - 73.37W) (Aprox. position)

At lease 738 crewmen killed, no survivors.
(Roll of Honour)
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Pembroke Dockyard
Pembroke, Wales

Aug. 29, 1901
Mar. 23, 1903
Fate
Sold Nov. 8, 1921 to Slough and scrapped in Germany.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Portsmouth Dockyard
Portsmouth, England

Mar. 6, 1901
Oct. 1, 1903
Fate
Sold in Hong Kong in June 1920 and scrapped.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Fairfield Shipbuilding &
Engineering Company Ltd.
Govan, Scotland

Aug. 31, 1901
Nov. 11, 1903
Fate
Wrecked Aug. 21, 1910 at Quelport Island in the Strait of Korea. Wreck sold
in Oct. 1919 and scraped.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
London & Glasgow Engine & Iron
Shipbuilding Company
Glasgow, Scotland

Dec. 16, 1902
Dec. 1, 1904
Fate
Sold May 9, 1921 to Thomas W. Ward and scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Fairfield Shipbuilding &
Engineering Company Ltd.
Govan, Scotland

Sept. 4, 1902
Nov. 5, 1903
Fate
Sold July 1, 1920 to S. Castle, Plymouth, England, resold to Granton Ship
Breaking Company and scrapped.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Sir William Armstrong, Mitchell &
Company Ltd.
Elswick, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England

Mar. 22, 1902
Apr. 5, 1904
Fate
Sold Mar. 3, 1920 to Thomas W. Ward and scrapped at Birkenhead and
Preston, England.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Pembroke Dockyard
Pembroke, Wales

Oct. 29, 1902
Dec. 1, 1905
Fate
Sold July 7, 1920 to Thomas W. Ward and scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Portsmouth Dockyard
Portsmouth, England

Jan. 15, 1903
May 21, 1904
Fate
Sold July 1, 1920 to S. Castle, scrapped in Germany in 1922.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
William Beardmore & Company
Dalmuir, Scotland

Sept. 20, 1902
Dec. 9, 1903
Fate
Sold for scrap July 1, 1920, scrapped in Hamburg, Germany in 1922.


Page published Nov. 15, 2008