HMS Roberts (F40)
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| Name: | HMS Roberts |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Laid down: | 30 April 1940 |
| Launched: | 1 February 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 27 October 1941 |
| Fate: | Sold June 1965 and scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Roberts-class monitor |
| Displacement: | 7,970 long tons (8,100 t) |
| Length: | 373 ft 3 in (113.77 m) oa |
| Beam: | 89 ft 9 in (27.36 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Installed power: | 4,800 shp (3,600 kW) |
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| Speed: | 12.5 kn (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 350 |
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HMS Roberts was a Royal Navy Roberts-class monitor of the Second World War. She was the second monitor to be named after Field Marshal Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts.
Built by John Brown & Company, of Clydebank, she was laid down 30 April 1940, launched 1 April 1941 and completed on 27 October 1941. She reused the twin 15-inch gun turret of the First World War monitor Marshall Soult.
Service history
Roberts provided bombardment support during Operation Torch in North Africa, where she was damaged by two 500 kg (1,100 lb) bombs in the Battle of Béjaïa. She was repaired in time to support Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily) and the Allied landings near Salerno (Operation Avalanche). During the D-Day landings, she was controlled from the headquarters ship HMS Largs[1] also positioned off Sword beach.[2] She also took part in the Walcheren operations.
Roberts was sold for scrap shortly after the war, but hired back by the navy as an accommodation ship at Devonport until 1965. She was finally broken up at Inverkeithing in July 1965.
One of Roberts' guns (originally in the battleship Resolution) is mounted outside the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, south London, together with one from the battleship Ramillies.[3]
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References
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- Lenton, H.T. & Colledge, J. J. Warships of World War II, Ian Allan, London, 1973. ISBN 0-7110-0403-X
- Young, John. A Dictionary of Ships of the Royal Navy of the Second World War. Patrick Stephens Ltd, Cambridge, 1975. ISBN 0-85059-332-8
