HMS General Wolfe (1915)

	General Wolfe in 1918
History
United Kingdom
Name	General Wolfe
Namesake	General James Wolfe
Ordered	6 January 1915
Builder	Palmers, Newcastle
Laid down	January 1915
Launched	9 September 1915
Commissioned	27 October 1915
Out of service	1919
Nickname(s)	"Elephant and Castle"
Fate	Scrapped, 1923
Notes	Made the longest-range shot in the history of the Royal Navy
General characteristics 9 November 1915
Class and type	Lord Clive-class monitor
Displacement	5,900 long tons (5,995 t) legend
Length	335 ft 6 in (102.3 m)
Beam	87 ft 2 in (26.6 m)
Draught	9 ft 7 in (2.9 m)
Propulsion	2 × shafts; triple-expansion steam engines, 2 × boilers, 2,500 ihp
Speed	8 knots (14.8 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	194
Armament	2 × BL 12 inches (305 mm) guns in a single turret; 2 × 12 pdr (76 mm) guns on single mounts; 1 × 3 pdr (47 mm) High Angle (HA) gun; 1 × 2 pdr (4 cm) HA gun on a single mount; 4 × .303in (7.7mm);
General characteristics 11 November 1918
Displacement	6,850-long-ton (6,960 t)
Draught	8 ft 9 in (2.7 m) forward; 13 ft 2 in (4.0 m) aft;
Armament	1×BL 18-inch (457 mm) Mark I gun in a single mount,; 2×BL 12-inch (304.8 mm) Mk VIII guns in a single turret,; 2×6 in (150 mm) guns,; 2×3-inch (76 mm) guns on single mounts,; 2×2 pdr (4 cm) HA gun on single mounts.;

HMS General Wolfe, also known as Wolfe, was a Lord Clive-class monitor which was built in 1915 for shore-bombardment duties in the First World War. Her class of eight ships was armed by four obsolete Majestic-class pre-dreadnoughts which had their 12-inch guns and mounts removed, modified and installed in the newly built monitors. Wolfe spent her entire war service with the Dover Patrol, bombarding the German-occupied Belgian coastline, which had been heavily fortified. In the spring of 1918 she was fitted with an 18-inch (457 mm) gun, with which she made the longest-range firing in the history of the Royal Navy - 36,000-yard (20 mi) - on a target at Snaeskerke, Belgium. After the war, she was laid up before being stripped and put up for sale in 1920. She was finally scrapped in 1923.

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