HMS Severn (1914)

HMS Severn
History
Brazil
Name	Solimoes
Builder	Vickers
Laid down	24 August 1912
Launched	19 August 1913
Out of service	8 August 1914
Fate	Sold to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Severn
Acquired	8 August 1914
Honours and awards	Battle of the Yser 1914 - 1915 SMS Königsberg 1915
Fate	Sold 9 May 1921 for scrapping
General characteristics
Class and type	Humber-class monitor
Displacement	1,260 long tons (1,280 t)
Length	266 ft 9 in (81.3 m)
Beam	49 ft (14.9 m)
Draught	5 ft 7.2 in (1.7 m)
Installed power	1,450 ihp (1,080 kW)
Propulsion	2 × triple expansion engines 2 × Yarrow boilers 2 × screws
Speed	12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) (design) 9.5 kn (18 km/h; 11 mph) (in service)
Armament	2 × 6 in (152 mm) guns 2 × 4.7 in (119 mm) dual-purpose guns 4 × 3-pounder guns 1 × 3-pounder anti-aircraft gun
Armour	Belt: 3–1.5 in (76–38 mm) Bulkheads: 1.5 in (38 mm) Barbette: 3.5 in (89 mm) Turret Face: 4 inches (102 mm)

HMS Severn was a Humber-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Originally built by Vickers for Brazil, she was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War along with her sister ships Humber and Mersey. She had been christened Solimoes by the Brazilians, but was renamed by the British.^[1] The three ships were the first of a new type of specialized shore-bombardment warships. As a result of her shallow draught, she was very un-manoeuvrable and unseaworthy in open waters in anything more than a Force 5 wind.