Gorgon-class monitor
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The Gorgon-class monitors were a class of monitors in service with the Royal Navy during World War I. Gorgon and her sister ship Glatton were originally built as coastal defence ships for the Royal Norwegian Navy, as HNoMS Nidaros and HNoMS Bjørgvin respectively but requisitioned for British use. Gorgon commissioned first, in June 1918 and bombarded German positions and other targets in Occupied Flanders. She fired the last shots of the war by the Royal Navy into Belgium on 15 October 1918. She was offered for sale after the war, but was used as a target ship when there were no takers. She was sold for scrap in 1928. Glatton was destroyed by a magazine explosion only days after she was completed in September 1918 while in Dover Harbour. She remained a hazard to shipping until the wreck was partially salvaged and the remains moved out of the way during 1925–26.
1914 — 1919
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2 produced,
Royal Norwegian Navy, Royal Navy, Armstrong Whitworth, 
HMS Glatton, HMS Gorgon,
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HMS Gorgon ⓘ
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HMS Glatton ⓘ
1914 Gorgon-class monitor
HMS Glatton in drydock IWM SP 2083
HMS Gorgon| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| link | page | Dreadnought Project page@ | Wikidata | ||
| object | watercraft | 1914 | HMS Gorgon | coastal defence ship, Gorgon-class monitor, Bjørgvin-class coastal defence ship | Wikidata |
| site | shipwreck | 1914 | HMS Glatton | shipwreck, monitor, Gorgon-class monitor, Bjørgvin-class coastal defence ship | Wikidata |
| commons | image | HMS Glatton in drydock IWM SP 2083 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | HMS Gorgon | Commons | ||
