Difference between revisions of "H.M.S. Monarch (1868)"

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H.M.S. Monarch was a masted turret ship that served in the Royal Navy from the 1870s until being broken up in 1905.

She was the first British sea-going ship to use turrets, and also the first ship to carry 12-in guns.

Monarch was made into a depot ship under the new name of Simoon in the early 1900s.

Dates of appointment given:

Captain Michael Culme-Seymour, 10 April, 1876^[1] – 7 July, 1877^[2]
Captain Henry Fairfax, 1 January, 1882^[3] – 11 January, 1884^[4]
Captain Charles H. Bayly, 1 February, 1900^[5]
Captain Robert K. McAlpine, March, 1902^[6]
Captain William L. Grant, 5 May, 1902^[7]
Acting Captain Cunningham R. de C. Foot, 24 March, 1902^[8] – 9 October, 1902^[9]
Commander William P. Lodder, 19 May, 1903^[10] (and for Dockyard service)
Captain Edward P. Ashe, November, 1904^[11] – 14 February, 1905^[12] (for passage home)

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