HMS Abercrombie (F109)
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HMS Abercrombie was a Royal Navy Roberts-class monitor of the Second World War. She was the second monitor to be named after General Sir Ralph Abercrombie.
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Name | HMS Abercrombie |
Ordered | 4 April 1941 |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Laid down | 26 April 1941 |
Launched | 31 March 1942 |
Commissioned | 5 May 1943 |
Fate | Scrapped at Barrow 24 December 1954 |
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Class and type | Roberts class monitor |
Displacement | 7,850 long tons (7,980 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 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
Complement | 350 |
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Abercrombie was built by Vickers Armstrong, Tyne. She was laid down on 26 April 1941, launched on 31 March 1942 and completed on 5 May 1943. She used a 15-inch gun turret originally built as a spare for Furious. (Although Furious was designed to be fitted with two single 18-inch gun turrets, twin 15-inch turrets were constructed as a stand-by in case the 18-inch turret proved to be unsuccessful.)