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A painting of Prince Rupert
History
United Kingdom
Name
Prince Rupert
Builder
William Hamilton & Co, Port Glasgow
Laid down
12 January 1915
Launched
20 May 1915
Decommissioned
1923
Fate
Scrapped, 1923
General characteristics
Class and type
Lord Clive-class monitor
Displacement
6,150 tons
Length
335 ft (102.1 m)
Beam
87 ft (26.5 m)
Draught
9.7 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion
2 shafts, reciprocating steam engines, 2 boilers, 2,310 hp
Speed
6.5 knots (12.0 km/h; 7.5 mph)
Complement
187
Armament
2 × 12 in (305 mm) guns
2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns
HMS Prince Rupert was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, an important Royalist commander of the English Civil War and key figure in the Restoration navy. Although she is the only ship of the Royal Navy to have ever had this precise name, other ships have been named after Prince Rupert as HMS Rupert. Her 12" main battery was stripped from the obsolete Majestic-class battleships.
The Lord Clive-class monitors were built in 1915 to engage German shore artillery in occupied Belgium during the First World War. Prince Rupert, with her sisters was regularly engaged in this service in the Dover Monitor Squadron, bombarding German positions along the coast and someway inland with their heavy guns.
Following the armistice in November 1918, Prince Rupert and all her sisters were put into reserve pending scrapping, as the reason for their existence had ended with the liberation of Belgium. In 1923 Prince Rupert was scrapped, outliving all her sister ships by two years as she had been briefly attached to the stone frigate HMS Pembroke at Chatham Dockyard.
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retrieved 18 December 2013 Ziegler, p. 385 Godfrey, Rupert, ed. (1998), "11 July 1920", Letters From a Prince: Edward to Mrs. Freda Dudley Ward 1918–1921, Little...
Hill 1941 Sunk by enemy action, 1942 HMSPrinceRupert 1915 Scrapped 1923 HMIS Rohilkand 1942 Scrapped 1963 HMS Rothesay 1941 Scrapped 1950 SS Saint Bernard...
which he was knighted on board of HMS Royal Charles for his gallant conduct as captain of the Lion (52), under PrinceRupert of the Rhine, who greatly favoured...
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