Ebook: Monitors of the Royal Navy: how the fleet brought the great guns to bear: the story of the monitors in two world wars

Monitor warships mounted the biggest guns ever deployed by the Royal Navy, and played an undeniably important part in Allied efforts during World War One and Two. They were built as cheap ""disposable"" ships made out of redundant bits and pieces which the Admiralty happened to have available which could bring heavy artillery to bear on enemy coasts with pin point accuracy and on at least one occasion a force of only three monitors had a profound effect on the strategic situation in WW I. Being classed as disposable they were often exposed to risks far more recklessly than more expensive battl.;Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 -- Origins; Chapter 2 -- Building the Monitors; Chapter 3 -- Monitors Enter Service; Chapter 4 -- The Gallipoli Campaign; Chapter 5 -- With the Dover Patrol; Chapter 6 -- After the Armistice; Chapter 7 -- The Second World War -- The Mediterranean Phase One; Chapter 8 -- Erebus and Roberts in the Normandy Invasion; Chapter 9 -- The Walcheren Landings; Chapter 10 -- The Final Phase in the Mediterranean; Chapter 11 -- Conclusion; Appendix; Index.