HMS Roberts (F40)

"HMS Roberts" was a Royal Navy "Roberts" class monitor of the Second World War. She was the second monitor to be named after Field Marshal Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts.

Built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank, she was laid down 30 April 1940, launched 1 April 1941 and completed on 27 October 1941. She reused the twin 15 inch gun turret of the World War I monitor "Marshal Soult".

HMS "Roberts" provided bombardment support during Operation Torch in North Africa, where she was damaged by two 500 kg bombs. She was repaired in time to support Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily), Allied landings near Salerno Operation Avalanche, the D-Day landings and the operations.

HMS "Roberts" was sold for scrapping shortly after the war, but hired back by the navy as an accommodation ship at Devonport until 1965. She was broken up at Inverkeithing in July 1965.

One of HMS "Robert's" guns (originally in HMS "Resolution") is mounted outside the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, South London, together with one from the battleship "Ramillies".

References

*Colledge
*Young, John. A Dictionary of Ships of the Royal Navy of the Second World War. Patrick Stephens Ltd, Cambridge, 1975. ISBN 0-85059-332-8
*Lenton, H.T. & Colledge, J. J. Warships of World War II, Ian Allen, London, 1973. ISBN 0-7110-0403-X

External links

* [http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5462.html HMS Roberts at www.uboat.net]
* [http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/roberts_class.htm Roberts Class Monitors at www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk]