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Description: | Inscribed by the artist, lower right, 'General Wolf[e]'. This is a not particularly accurate port-broadside drawing of the monitor 'General Wolfe' (1915) fitted with an 18-inch gun aft and a twin 12-inch gun turret forward. The 18-inch gun was fitted at Portsmouth Dockyard in July 1918 and her gun trials were carried out off the Isle of Wight on 7 August. The 18-inch gun was on a fixed mounting and was permanently aimed to starboard, with two pom-pom guns fitted on top of its housing, as shown here. The vesselwas built by Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd at Hebburn, on the Tyne,was launched on 9 September 1915 and completed on 9 November. She served at Dover throughout the war and was broken up at Hayle from December 1923. [BTodd/PvdM 2/13]
Box Title: Wyllie: Naval, named ships. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | General Wolf 1915 [HMS] drawings | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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