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Description: | Signed 'W.H.C.Cluett', lower right, this is an accurate port-broadside depiction of this Royal Naval 'M'-class river monitor at anchor. This small type was put together fairly rapidly, using standard hulls but with differing weaponry basd on what was available. 'M.31' had two 6-inch BL mark XII guns and one 6-pdr Hotchkiss HA gun. She was based at Imbros island (renamed G�k�eada in 1970) on the north-west Turkish coast to January 1916 then in Egypt to March 1919. The background sugests she is here shown off the Turkish coast. One of these ships - the 'Minerva' (M.33) - has survived and is today preserved as a historic vessel at Portsmouth.
Box Title: Fighting ships 1898-1955. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | M31 1919 [HMS] drawings | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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