HMS Gorgon

HMS Gorgon and her sister ship Glatton were two monitors originally built as coastal defence ships for the Royal Norwegian Navy, as HNoMS Nidaros and Bjørgvin respectively, by Armstrong Whitworth at Elswick. She was purchased from Norway at the beginning of the First World War, but was not completed until 1918 although she had been launched over three years earlier. She engaged targets in Occupied Flanders for the last several months of the war and fired the last shots of the war against such targets on 15 October 1918. She was used as a target ship after several attempts to sell her had fallen through before being sold for scrap in 1928.

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HNoMS Nidaros
length 94 metre, draft 5.4 metre, beam 16.8 metre,
Bjørgvin-class coastal defence ship, Gorgon-class monitor, coastal defence ship, Armstrong Whitworth, Royal Navy, Royal Norwegian Navy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,

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1914 HMS Gorgon

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keel laying

1918-05-01T00:00:00Z

ship commissioning

1919-09-01T00:00:00Z

ship decommissioning

1914-06-09T00:00:00Z

ship launching

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HMS Gorgon

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