Lord Clive Class Monitor (1915)

Overview of 8 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Earl of Peterborough			1915
General Craufurd			1915
General Wolfe			1915
Lord Clive			1915
Prince Eugene			1915
Prince Rupert			1915
Sir John Moore			1915
Sir Thomas Picton			1915

Fire Control

Directors

All eight ships were fitted with directors in 1915.^[1] General Wolfe, Lord Clive and Prince Eugene were later fitted with 18-in guns, requiring their directors to be updated in 1918, although this new director was never fitted in Prince Eugene.^[2]

Footnotes

↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. p. 13.
↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. p. 14.

Bibliography

Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1917). The Director Firing Handbook. O.U. 6125 (late C.B. 1259). Copy No. 322 at The National Archives. ADM 186/227.
Admiralty, Technical History Section (1919). The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships. Vol. 3, Part 23. C.B. 1515 (23) now O.U. 6171/14. At The National Archives. ADM 275/19.
Buxton, Ian L. (1978). Big Gun Monitors: The History of the Design, Construction and Operation of the Royal Navy's Monitors. Tynemouth: World Ship Society. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).