HMS Montrose (1918)
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HMS Montrose
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| Name: | HMS Montrose |
| Laid down: | 27 March 1918 |
| Launched: | 29 May 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 14 December 1919 |
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| Fate: | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 25 July 1945 |
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| Class and type: | Admiralty-type destroyer leader |
| Displacement: | 1,530 tons |
| Length: | 320 ft (98 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | Parsons Turbines, 2 shafts, Yarrow Boilers 40,000 hp (30 MW) |
| Speed: | 36.5 knots |
| Complement: | 164 |
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The first HMS Montrose was one of eight Admiralty-type destroyer leaders, sometimes known as the Scott class. They were named after figures from Scottish history; Montrose was named for the Graham Dukes of Montrose. She was built during the First World War, but was completed too late for service then. However, she had a long career in the inter-war years and saw extensive service during the Second World War.
Montrose was ordered under the Wartime Emergency Construction Programme in April 1917, from Hawthorn Leslie of Hebburn. She was laid down at Hebburn-on-Tyne on 17 September 1917, launched in June 1918 and completed on 14 September that year, too late for her to be actively involved in the First World War.
In 1921 Montrose was sent to the Mediterranean Fleet where she would be stationed for an astonishing ten years, being involved in a number of operations during her attachment to the Fleet. One of her first duties was assisting in the evacuation of the remnants of the White Army at Novorossiysk, a harbour near the Black Sea, in March 1920. Many other Royal Navy warships assisted in the evacuation, along with British forces on land.
She finally returned home in 1929, serving initially in the Nore Reserve Fleet, then with the more prestigious Home Fleet from 1930 to 1932, before being placed into Reserve until she was given her eventual refit at Devonport shortly before World War II began. In 1939 she was made leader of the 17th Destroyer Flotilla, stationed with the Western Approaches Command, and for the first few months back in active service was tasked with anti-submarine patrols in the East Atlantic.
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