 Lord Clive underway, 1915–1918
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Lord Clive |
| Namesake | Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive |
| Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Yard number | 478 |
| Laid down | 9 January 1915 |
| Launched | 10 June 1915 |
| Completed | 10 July 1915 |
| Commissioned | 10 July 1915 |
| Decommissioned | 26 November 1918 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 10 October 1927 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Lord Clive-class monitor |
| Displacement | 5,850 long tons (5,944 t) (deep load) |
| Length | 335 ft 6 in (102.3 m) |
| Beam | 87 ft 2 in (26.6 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft 11 in (3.02 m) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) (service) |
| Endurance | 1,100 nmi (2,000 km; 1,300 mi) at 6.5 knots (12 km/h; 7 mph) |
| Complement | 194 |
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| Armour | |
HMS Lord Clive was the lead ship of her class of eight monitors built for the Royal Navy during World War I. Their primary armament was taken from obsolete pre-dreadnought battleships. The ship spent the war in the English Channel bombarding German positions along the Belgian coast as part of the Dover Patrol, often serving as a flagship. She participated in the failed First Ostend Raid in 1918, bombarding the defending coastal artillery as the British attempted to block the Bruges–Ostend Canal. Lord Clive was one of two ships in the class fitted with a single 18-inch (457 mm) gun in 1918, but she only fired four rounds from it in combat before the end of the war in November. The ship conducted gunnery trials after the war and was sold for scrap in 1927.