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HMS M27
HMS ''M27'' was a World War I, First World War Royal Navy M15 class monitor, ''M15''-class Monitor (ship), monitor. She was also served in the British intervention in Russia in 1919, and was scuttling, scuttled in the Dvina River on 16 September 1919. Design Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, ''M27''s primary armament was a single BL 9.2 inch gun Mk I - VII, 9.2 inch Mk VI gun removed from the HMS Theseus (1892), HMS ''Theseus''. In addition to her 9.2 inch gun she also possessed one QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun, 12 pounder and one QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss, six pound anti-aircraft gun. She was equipped with a four shaft Bolinder two cylinder semi-diesel engine with 560 horse power that allowed a top speed of eleven knots. The monitor's crew consisted of sixty nine officers and men. Construction HMS ''M27'' ordered in March, 1915, as part of the War Emergency Programme destroyers, War Emergency Programme of ship construction. She was laid down at the Sir Raylton Dixo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Raylton Dixon
Sir Raylton Dixon (8 July 1838 – 28 July 1901), was a shipbuilding magnate from Middlesbrough on the River Tees who served as Mayor of Middlesbrough. Background and early life Dixon was one of the seven children of Jeremiah II Dixon (1804–1882) and Mary Frank (1803–1877) of Cockfield, County Durham who were married on 21 July 1833 in St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington, St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington. He was the great-grandson of George Dixon (Cockfield Canal), George Dixon of Cockfield Canal fame, and great, great nephew of Jeremiah Dixon. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he studied Mathematics. Business life The yard first did business under the name ''Backhouse & Dixon''. Raylton Dixon started the firm of Raylton Dixon & Co. in 1873 with the substantial Dixon family coal mining fortune, and it operated until 1923 when it was dissolved. At the height of its production the three Dixon brothers, Raylton, John, and Waynman Dixon, Waynman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dover Patrol
The Dover Patrol and later known as the Dover Patrol Force was a Royal Navy command of the First World War, notable for its involvement in the Zeebrugge Raid on 22 April 1918. The Dover Patrol formed a discrete unit of the Royal Navy based at Dover and Dunkirk for the duration of the First World War. Its primary task was to prevent enemy German shipping—chiefly submarines—from entering the English Channel ''en route'' to the Atlantic Ocean, thereby obliging the Imperial German Navy to travel via the much longer route around Scotland which was itself covered by the Northern Patrol. History In late July 1914, with war looming, 12 Tribal-class destroyers arrived at Dover to join the near obsolete destroyers already at anchor in the harbour, most of them built in the late 19th century. These destroyers formed the nucleus of the fledgling Dover Patrol, which, from its early beginnings as a modest and poorly equipped command, became one of the most important Royal Navy commands of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Dvina
, image = dvina.jpg , image_size = , image_caption = Northern Dvina starts as the confluence of Yug River (on left) and Sukhona River (on top) near Veliky Ustyug (photo 2001) , source1 = Confluence of Yug and Sukhona , source1_location = , mouth_location = Dvina Bay , subdivision_type1 = Country , subdivision_name1 = Russia , length = , source1_elevation = , mouth_elevation = , discharge1_avg = , basin_size = The Northern Dvina (russian: Се́верная Двина́, ; kv, Вы́нва / Výnva) is a river in northern Russia flowing through the Vologda Oblast and Arkhangelsk Oblast into the Dvina Bay of the White Sea. Along with the Pechora River to the east, it drains most of Northwest Russia into the Arctic Ocean. It should not be confused with Western Dvina. The principal tributaries of the Northern Dvina are the Vychegda (right), the Vaga (left), and the Pinega ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkhangelsk
Arkhangelsk (, ; rus, Арха́нгельск, p=ɐrˈxanɡʲɪlʲsk), also known in English as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina near its mouth into the White Sea. The city spreads for over along the banks of the river and numerous islands of its river delta, delta. Arkhangelsk was the chief seaport of medieval and early modern Russia until 1703, when it was replaced by the newly-founded Saint Petersburg. A Northern Railway (Russia), railway runs from Arkhangelsk to Moscow via Vologda and Yaroslavl, and air travel is served by the Talagi Airport and the smaller Vaskovo Airport. As of the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census, the city's population was 301,199. Coat of arms The arms of the city display the Michael (archangel), Archangel Michael in the act of defeating the Devil. Legend states that this victory took place near where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Russian Expeditionary Force
The North Russia intervention, also known as the Northern Russian expedition, the Archangel campaign, and the Murman deployment, was part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution. The intervention brought about the involvement of foreign troops in the Russian Civil War on the side of the White movement. The movement was ultimately defeated, while the Allied forces withdrew from Northern Russia after fighting a number of defensive actions against the Bolsheviks, such as the Battle of Bolshie Ozerki. The campaign lasted from March 1918, during the final months of World War I, to October 1919. Reasons behind the campaign In March 1917, after the abdication of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the formation of a provisional democratic government in Russia, the U.S. entered World War I. The U.S. government declared war on the German Empire in April (and later upon Austria-Hungary) after learning of the former's attempt to persuade Mexico to joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murmansk
Murmansk (Russian: ''Мурманск'' lit. "Norwegian coast"; Finnish: ''Murmansk'', sometimes ''Muurmanski'', previously ''Muurmanni''; Norwegian: ''Norskekysten;'' Northern Sámi: ''Murmánska;'' Kildin Sámi: ''Мурман ланнҍ'') is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia. It sits on both slopes and banks of a modest ria or fjord, Kola Bay, an estuarine inlet of the Barents Sea. Its bulk is on the east bank of the inlet. It is in the north of the rounded Kola Peninsula which covers most of the oblast. The city is from the border with Norway and from the Finnish border. The city is named for the Murman Coast, which is in turn derived from an archaic term in Russian for "Norwegian". Benefiting from the North Atlantic Current, Murmansk resembles cities of its size across western Russia, with highway and railway access to the rest of Europe, and the northernmost trolleybus system on Earth. It lies over 2° n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Humber (1914)
HMS ''Humber'' was a monitor of the Royal Navy. Originally built by Vickers for Brazil as ''Javary'', she was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War along with her sister ships and . Construction and design In 1911 the Brazilian Navy was in an arms race with its South American counterparts. Towards the end of the year the British manufacturers Vickers, Son & Maxim, and Armstrong Whitworth were contacted to discuss the building of three shallow-draft river monitors that could be used by the Brazilian Navy in the inland waters of the Amazon River. Both companies submitted proposals for a class of monitors, and in January 1912 the Vickers design was chosen for construction. The design called for monitors of 1,200 tons, that would carry two guns in a single twin turret on the forward part of the ship. Being meant for service on often shallow rivers, the design was purposefully given a large hull with a beam of by to offset the shallow draugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS M33
HMS ''M33'' is an of the Royal Navy built in 1915. She saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia during the Allied Intervention in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, boom defence workshop and floating office, being renamed HMS ''Minerva'' and Hulk ''C23'' during her long life. She passed to Hampshire County Council in the 1980s and was then handed over to the National Museum of the Royal Navy in 2014. A programme of conservation was undertaken to enable her to be opened to the public. HMS ''M33'' is located within Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and opened to visitors on 7 August 2015 following a service of dedication. She is one of only three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War and the only surviving Allied ship from the Gallipoli Campaign, the other being the Ottoman minelayer Nusret, preserved in Çanakkale. Construction ''M33'' was built as part of the rapid ship construction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS M31
HMS ''M31'' was an M29-class monitor, ''M29''-class monitor (warship), monitor of the Royal Navy. The availability of ten 6 inch Mk XII guns from the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, ''Queen Elizabeth''-class battleships in 1915 prompted the British Admiralty, Admiralty to order five scaled down versions of the M15-class monitor, ''M15''-class monitors, which had been designed to utilise 9.2 inch guns. HMS ''M31'' and her sisters were ordered from Harland and Wolff, Harland & Wolff, Belfast in March 1915. Launched on 24 June 1915, she was completed in July 1915. Upon completion, HMS ''M31'' was sent to the Mediterranean, and remained there until March, 1919. In 1916, she Capture of Yanbu, defended the port city of Yanbo, in Saudi Arabia, against the Turkish army by providing artillery cover for the Arab Revolt, Arab rebels. She served from May to September 1919 in support of British and White movement, White Russian forces in the White Sea, before returning to England. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS M25
HMS ''M25'' was a First World War Royal Navy ''M15''-class monitor. She was also served in the British intervention in Russia in 1919, and was scuttled in the Dvina River on 16 September 1919. Design Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, ''M25''s primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk VI gun removed from the HMS ''Endymion''. In addition to her 9.2-inch gun she also possessed one 12 pounder and one six-pounder anti-aircraft gun. She was equipped with a four-shaft Bolinder four-cylinder semi-diesel engine with 640 horsepower that allowed a top speed of eleven knots. The monitor's crew consisted of sixty-nine officers and men. Construction HMS ''M25'' ordered in March, 1915, as part of the War Emergency Programme of ship construction. She was laid down at the Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd shipyard in March 1915, launched on 24 July 1915, and completed in September 1915. World War 1 ''M25'' served with the Dover Patrol from September 1915 to June 1918. In early 1916, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS M23
HMS ''M23'' was a First World War Royal Navy ''M15''-class monitor. After service in the Mediterranean and the Dover Patrol, she was also served in the British intervention in Russia in 1919. Converted to the RNVR drillship ''Claverhouse'' in 1922, she served in that capacity at "Leith" until 1958. Design Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, ''M23''s primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk VI gun removed from the HMS ''Grafton''. In addition to her 9.2-inch gun, she also possessed one 12 pounder and one six pound anti-aircraft gun. She was equipped with a four-shaft Bolinder four-cylinder semi-diesel engine with 640 horsepower that allowed a top speed of eleven knots. The monitor's crew consisted of sixty-nine officers and men. Construction HMS ''M23'' ordered in March, 1915, as part of the War Emergency Programme of ship construction. She was laid down at the Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd shipyard at Govan in March 1915, launched on 17 June 1915, and completed in July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
