HMS Lord Clive (1915)

Lord Clive in November 1918, during the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Lord Clive
Namesake:	Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
Builder:	Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Yard number:	478
Laid down:	9 January 1915
Launched:	10 June 1915
Completed:	10 July 1915
Commissioned:	10 July 1915
Decommissioned:	26 November 1918
Fate:	Sold for breaking up 10 October 1927
General characteristics
Class and type:	Lord Clive-class monitor
Displacement:	5,850 long tons (5,944 t) at deep load
Length:	335 ft 6 in (102.3 m)
Beam:	87 ft 2 in (26.6 m)
Draught:	9 ft 10.5 in (3.0 m)
Propulsion:	2 shaft, VTE steam engines, 2,310 ihp (1,720 kW) 2 water-tube boilers
Speed:	7 knots (8.1 mph; 13 km/h)
Endurance:	1,100 nmi (2,040 km) at 6.5 knots (12 km/h)
Complement:	194
Armament:	1 × 2 - BL 12-inch (304.8 mm) Mk VIII guns 2 × 1 - 3-inch (76 mm) guns 1 × 3-pounder and 1 × 2-pounder AA guns
Armour:	Belt: 6 in (152 mm) Bulkheads: 4 in (102 mm) Turret face: 10.5 in (267 mm) Turret sides 5.5 in (140 mm) Barbette: 8 in (203 mm) Conning tower: 6 in (152 mm) Deck: 1–2 in (25–51 mm)

HMS Lord Clive was the lead ship of the British Lord Clive-class monitors. She was named for Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, a British general of the Seven Years' War who won the Battle of Plassey and became Governor of British India. Her main guns were taken from the obsolete pre-dreadnought battleship Majestic. She spent World War I in the English Channel bombarding German positions along the Belgian coast. She was fitted with a single 18-inch (460 mm) gun in 1918, but only fired four rounds from it in combat before the end of the war. She was deemed redundant after the end of the war and was sold for scrap in 1927.

Lord Clive had an overall length of 335 feet 6 inches (102.26 m), a beam of 87 feet 2 inches (26.6 m) including the torpedo bulge, 57 feet (17.4 m) without, and a draft of 9 feet 10.5 inches (3.010 m) at deep load. She displaced 5,850 long tons (5,940 t) at deep load.

She was powered by two four-cylinder Harland & Wolff vertical triple expansion steam engines, which developed 2,310 indicated horsepower (1,720 kW) with steam from two watertube boilers that gave her a maximum speed of 7 knots (8.1 mph; 13.0 km/h) in service. On trials Lord Clive made 8.02 knots (9 mph; 15 km/h). She carried 356 long tons (362 t) of coal which gave her a range of 1,100 nmi (2,040 km) at 6.5 knots (7 mph; 12 km/h).