Roberts Class Monitor (1941)

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Two Roberts class monitors were built for use in the Royal Navy during World War II. They were very much similar to the monitors built and used in the Great War, and indeed used some of their same gun mountings.

Overview of 2 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
Roberts John Brown & Company, Clydebank 30 Apr, 1940 1 Feb, 1941 27 Oct, 1941 Broken up 1965
Abercrombie Vickers-Armstrongs, Wallsend 26 Apr, 1941 31 Mar, 1942 5 May, 1943 Broken up 1955

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Roberts Class Monitor
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