Apr 3, 2020 · I’ve just come across the story of HMS General Wolfe. Wolfe was a monitor built originally with two main guns of 12-inch (305mm) calibre, but in 1918 one monster 18-inch (457mm) gun was added. On 28 September 1918 from out in the North Sea this 18-inch gun fired at a target in Belgium that was 36,000 yards (20 miles) away.

Nov 18, 2004 · HMS Columbine was a 1917 Purpose Built Torpedo Boat Destroyer Depot @ Port Edgar,Queensferry HMS Pembroke is /was a Shore Base. HMS General Wolfe was a 9th September 1915 built Monitor Scrapped 1921

Apr 3, 2020 · HMS General Wolfe - Longest Shot? By Bart150 3 April , 2020 in Sailors, navies and the war at sea. Share ...

Nov 14, 2004 · Having been led up the garden path by family anecdote I now discover that my wifes Gdad did not serve on B class Destroyer HMS Wolf but on the Monitor HMS General Wolfe which was part of the Dover Patrol and used to shell German Positions in Belgium. Any information out there on this ship. Bill

Jul 24, 2024 · Michael Joseph WALSH, "HMS Vivid" Died 1917 = I'm struggling to see a physical commemoration [so that could be worth enquiring about] - See also WFA/Fold3 pension records - HMS "Woulfe" James Joseph WALSH, 153/M, RNVR, HMS "Vivid" - See WFA/Fold3 pension records - made a disability claim and then seems to have been recorded as Overseas c. 28/10 ...

Jul 11, 2007 · The monitor, HMS General Wolfe, was moored off the Belgian coast. At 0732 hrs on 28th The General Wolfe opened fire with her 18 inch gun from a distance of 36,000 yards (appx 20 miles) ranged on a railyway bridge at Snaerskerke (4m south of Ostende) and in doing so fired the heaviest shell from the biggest gun at the longest range ever used to ...

Mar 20, 2008 · HMS Colossus . Built Scotts, laid down July 1919, completed July 1911, cost £1,672,103. HMS Hercules. Built Palmers, laid down July 1909, completed August 1911, cost £1,661,240. Size: Length 541 feet 6 inch waterline 545 feet 9 inches overall, 86 feet 8 inch beam, draught 29feet 5 inch deep, displacement 20,030 tons load 23,266 tons deep ...

Mar 10, 2012 · I am looking for information on the wherabouts of the 1905-built trawler GENERAL GORDON during the period she was requisitioned. Apparently she was requisitioned in March 1917 and converted to a minesweeper and decommissioned in 1920, Although she appears to change british owners in the 1920s, sh...

May 24, 2012 · Hi all, I have just discovered that my Grandfather Edward Largey K 26917 spent all his wartime RN service (1915 to 1918) on board HMS General Craufurd. with,presumably, the exception of 9th and 10th May, 1918 when he was on board Vindictive during the 2nd Raid on Ostend, for which he was mentione...

Mar 25, 2014 · HMS Mercury 01.08.1910 CO HMs/m A12 General Service 12.01.1911 HMS Triumph HMS Thames 08.02.1913 CO HMs/m C1 HMS Dolphin 01.07.1915 CO HMs/m E20 [Completing, Vickers] 05.11.1915 Prisoner of War HMS Dolphin 01.12.1918 For submarine duties HMS Royal Arthur 17.02.1919 In Command HMS Pandora 14.01.1920 In Command