: 2008-02-17, 14:52
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Second edition of "Big Gun Monitors" is at the printers, to be published soon by Seaforth Publishing.
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=1588 <http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=1588>
However it will be a hardback despite the publisher saying paperback.
This is what I have written on M33 post WW2:
She returned to Portsmouth in 1946 and was moored on the south side of the oil fuel jetty at Gosport. Here she remained as a floating workshop and office for auxiliary craft at the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard. Her designation was C.23(M) for some of the time, though after the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service was set up, she then became RMAS Minerva. She was kept in good condition with regular refits by the dockyard. When no longer required by the Ministry of Defence, she was removed in 1984 to lie up harbour at Portsmouth. Efforts were made to preserve her, as one of the very few remaining First World War warships in the world. In December 1985 she was sold by the Ministry of Defence for £8250 to the Hartlepool Ship Preservation Trust, for possible restoration at Hartlepool where Warrior had recently been restored. She left Portsmouth together with Foudroyant (now restored as Trincomalee) on board the barge Goliath Pacific on 24 July 1987. Little work was possible due t!
o lack of funds, but in 1990 Hampshire County Council investigated the possibility of restoring her at her old base of Portsmouth. She was towed back from Hartlepool, arriving at Portsmouth on 25 August 1991.
Some general hull maintenance was carried out by a small band from the Royal Navy Museum at Portsmouth. A 6-inch Mark XII No. 2838, formerly at the gunnery training school Excellent, was fitted on the forecastle in March 1992, while she was berthed in No. 1 Basin at the Dockyard. From 1994 Hampshire County Council Museums Service took over project responsibilities. M.33 was moved into the old No. 1 Drydock close to HMS Victory on 23 April 1997, clear of the water, so permitting an electrolytic anti-corrosion treatment to be applied internally. A second 6-inch acquired from the Chilean Navy in 1994 was fitted aft. Work has continued slowly on her restoration to her 1915 appearance, including a dazzle painting scheme and interpretive panels around the drydock, but visitors are not at present (2007) allowed on board. Although the drydock entrance has been closed off by a new jetty, her future is reported as 'reasonably secure', so she should be able to participate in her own a!
nd the Gallipoli centenary in 2015.
Ian Buxton
Second edition of "Big Gun Monitors" is at the printers, to be published soon by Seaforth Publishing.
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=1588 <http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=1588>
However it will be a hardback despite the publisher saying paperback.
This is what I have written on M33 post WW2:
She returned to Portsmouth in 1946 and was moored on the south side of the oil fuel jetty at Gosport. Here she remained as a floating workshop and office for auxiliary craft at the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard. Her designation was C.23(M) for some of the time, though after the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service was set up, she then became RMAS Minerva. She was kept in good condition with regular refits by the dockyard. When no longer required by the Ministry of Defence, she was removed in 1984 to lie up harbour at Portsmouth. Efforts were made to preserve her, as one of the very few remaining First World War warships in the world. In December 1985 she was sold by the Ministry of Defence for £8250 to the Hartlepool Ship Preservation Trust, for possible restoration at Hartlepool where Warrior had recently been restored. She left Portsmouth together with Foudroyant (now restored as Trincomalee) on board the barge Goliath Pacific on 24 July 1987. Little work was possible due t!
o lack of funds, but in 1990 Hampshire County Council investigated the possibility of restoring her at her old base of Portsmouth. She was towed back from Hartlepool, arriving at Portsmouth on 25 August 1991.
Some general hull maintenance was carried out by a small band from the Royal Navy Museum at Portsmouth. A 6-inch Mark XII No. 2838, formerly at the gunnery training school Excellent, was fitted on the forecastle in March 1992, while she was berthed in No. 1 Basin at the Dockyard. From 1994 Hampshire County Council Museums Service took over project responsibilities. M.33 was moved into the old No. 1 Drydock close to HMS Victory on 23 April 1997, clear of the water, so permitting an electrolytic anti-corrosion treatment to be applied internally. A second 6-inch acquired from the Chilean Navy in 1994 was fitted aft. Work has continued slowly on her restoration to her 1915 appearance, including a dazzle painting scheme and interpretive panels around the drydock, but visitors are not at present (2007) allowed on board. Although the drydock entrance has been closed off by a new jetty, her future is reported as 'reasonably secure', so she should be able to participate in her own a!
nd the Gallipoli centenary in 2015.
Ian Buxton
i z opisem na poczatku, bym sie nie pogubil w tym wszystim. 
