HMS Stonewall Jackson

[tynebuoy]

1915 Swans, Wallsend (991).

[magoonigal]

Better known as the 1st HMS ROBERTS dating from 1915 and scrapped by T W Ward at Preston in 1936.

[magoonigal]

Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend. Yard Number 991.

Laid Down 17th Dec. 1914.
Launched 15th April 1915.
Completed 14th June 1915.
Scrapped by T W Ward at Preston.
Sold 4th September 1936.
Arrived Preston 19th September 1936.

Displacement 6,150 Tons on a draft of 10ft 0ins.

334ft 6ins oa x 90ft 2ins Beam. (Main Hull 60ft)

12 Officers and 186 Men.

Main Guns 2 x 14" with 120 HE and 15 Practice Rounds per Gun.

Two 3 Cylinder trip[le expansion by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson.
1,800 ihp at 180 rpm. Coal 380 tons max.

Designed speed 10 kts. 6.5 Kts Service. Actual Trials 5.70 Kts.

Towed out to Mudros by the ENDYMION and arrived on the 15th July 1915.

Lobbed nasty big shells at the Turk's and returned home to Gorleston near Yarmouth on the 27th May 1916.
Drydocked Tyne June 1917 and then moved to the Thames Estuary returning to Yarmouth where she stayed until the end of the War. (except for a refit at Portsmouth in July 1918.)

Paid off at Immingham 26th May 1919.

Sold for scrap May 1919 but retained for experimental purposes until 1936.

Big Gun Monitors. Dr Ian Buxton.