HMS Erebus (I02)
HMS Erebus in 1944
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Erebus |
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 Royal Navy
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| Builder: | Harland & Wolff, Govan |
| Yard number: | 492 |
| Laid down: | 12 October 1915 |
| Launched: | 19 June 1916 |
| Completed: | 2 September 1916 |
| Commissioned: | 2 September 1916 |
| Refit: | August 1939 |
| Fate: | Scrapped July 1946 |
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| Class and type: | Erebus-class monitor |
| Displacement: | 7,200 long tons (7,300 t) |
| Length: | 405 ft (123.4 m) |
| Beam: | 88 ft (26.8 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
| Installed power: | 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW) |
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| Speed: | 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 226 |
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HMS Erebus was a First World War monitor launched on 19 June 1916 and served in both world wars. She and her sister ship Terror are known as the Erebus class. They were named after the two bomb ketches sent to investigate the Northwest Passage as part of Franklin's Lost Expedition (1845-1848), in which all 129 members eventually perished.
Monitors were designed as stable gun platforms with a shallow draft to allow operations close inshore in support of land operations and were not intended to contest naval battles. Erebus was equipped with two 15 in (381 mm)/42 guns (removed from HMS Marshal Ney) in a single forward turret mounted on a tall barbette to extend the range of fire to 40,000 yd (22.7 mi; 36.6 km).
The Erebus class were designed to outrange German heavy shore batteries and they were also fitted with highly effective anti-torpedo bulges on each side of the hull.
During the First World War, Erebus bombarded German naval forces based at the Belgian ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge.
On 28 October 1917, she was damaged by a remote controlled German FL-boat, and suffered the loss of 50 ft (15 m) of anti-torpedo bulge.
In 1919, Erebus took part in the British Invasion of Russia providing gunfire support in the White Sea and in the Baltic Sea.
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