HMS Terror
Ship Number
493
Vessel Type
Monitor
Built
Belfast
Slip Number
5
Launch Date
May 18, 1916
Delivered
August 6, 1916
Owner
Admiralty
Weight
8022 grt
BP Length
380 feet
Breadth
12 feet
No. of Screws
Twin
Speed (approx)
12 knots
Propulsion
Triple expansion . Boilers : Babcock
Official No.
Registered
Fate
Sank
HMS Terror

[Photo supplied by Bruce Biddulph]
Emergency War Programme. Designed as an improved " Abercrombie " type to outrange the 15 and 11 inch guns mounted by Germans on Belgian Coast. Their speed, considering their great beam. is remarkable. Along with HMS Erebus were the "crack" monitors of the famous Dover Patrol.
 
Armament: 2 - 15 inch, 42 cal. (Dir. Con.), 8 - 4 inch, 2 - 12 pdr., 2 - 3 inch (anti. aircraft), 2 -2 pdr. (anti-aircraft) 4 MG.
 
Bombed by German bombers in Benghazi harbour 22nd February 1941 - sank off Derna as she was being towed to Alexandria.