M33 in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard, July 2021, restored into dazzle camouflage. HMS Prince of Wales is visible in the background.
History
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Name
M33 (1915–1924)
HMS Minerva (1925–1939)
Hulk C23 (1939–1945)
RMAS Minerva (1945–)
HMS M33 (1990s)
Ordered
15 March 1915
Builder
Workman Clark, Belfast for Harland and Wolff
Yard number
489
Launched
22 May 1915
Completed
26 June 1915
Commissioned
24 June 1915
Status
Museum ship, Portsmouth
General characteristics
Class and type
M29-class monitor
Displacement
580 tons deep load
Length
177 ft 3 in (54.03 m)
Beam
31 ft (9.4 m)
Draught
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Installed power
4,000 hp (2,980 kW)
Propulsion
Triple-expansion steam engines
Twin screws
Speed
9.6 knots (18 km/h)
Range
1,440 nautical miles (2,670 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h)
Complement
72
Armament
2 × BL 6-inch (152 mm) Mk XII guns
1 × QF 6-pounder (57 mm) gun
2 × Maxim guns
HMSM33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Built in 1915, she saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia during the Allied Intervention in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, boom defence workshop and floating office, being renamed HMS Minerva and Hulk C23 during her long life. She passed to Hampshire County Council in the 1980s and was then handed over to the National Museum of the Royal Navy in 2014. A programme of conservation was undertaken to enable her to be opened to the public. HMS M33 is located within Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and opened to visitors on 7 August 2015 following a service of dedication. She is one of only three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War and the only surviving Allied ship from the Gallipoli Campaign, the other being the Ottoman minelayer Nusret, preserved in Çanakkale.
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