HMS General Craufurd

	General Craufurd at sea
History
United Kingdom
Name	General Craufurd
Namesake	General Robert Craufurd
Builder	Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Yard number	479
Laid down	9 January 1915
Launched	8 July 1915
Completed	26 August 1915
Fate	Sold for scrap, 9 May 1921
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Lord Clive-class monitor
Displacement	5,850 long tons (5,944 t) (deep load)
Length	335 ft 6 in (102.3 m)
Beam	87 ft 2 in (26.6 m)
Draught	9 ft 11 in (3.02 m)
Installed power	2 water-tube boilers; 2,310 ihp (1,720 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) (service)
Endurance	1,100 nmi (2,000 km; 1,300 mi) at 6.5 knots (12 km/h; 7 mph)
Complement	194
Armament	1 × twin 12 in (305 mm) guns; 1 × single 3 in (76 mm)) AA gun; 2 × single 12 pdr 3 in (76 mm) guns; 1 × single 3 pdr (47 mm (1.9 in)) AA gun;
Armour	Belt: 6 in (152 mm); Bulkheads: 6 in (152 mm); Turret face: 10.5 in (267 mm); Turret sides 5.5 in (140 mm); Barbette: 8 in (203 mm); Conning tower: 6 in (152 mm); Deck: 1–2 in (25–51 mm);

HMS General Craufurd was the one of eight Lord Clive-class monitors built for the Royal Navy during World War I. Their primary armament was taken from obsolete pre-dreadnought battleships. The ship spent the war in the English Channel bombarding German positions along the Belgian coast as part of the Dover Patrol. She participated in the failed First and Second Ostend Raids in 1918, bombarding the defending coastal artillery as the British attempted to block the Bruges–Ostend Canal. Later that year General Craufurd supported the coastal battles during the Hundred Days Offensive until the Germans evacuated coastal Belgium in mid-October. The ship was decommissioned almost immediately after the war ended the following month, but she was reactivated in 1920 to serve as a gunnery training ship for a year. General Craufurd was sold for scrap in 1921.

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