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|Ship name=HMS Roberts|Ship namesake=|Ship ordered=|Ship builder=John Brown & Company, Clydebank|Ship laid down=30 April 1940|Ship launched=1 February 1941|Ship acquired=|Ship commissioned=27 October 1941|Ship decommissioned=|Ship in service=|Ship out of service=|Ship struck=|Ship reinstated=|Ship honours=|Ship fate=Sold June 1965 and scrapped|Ship notes=}}

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7970t|lk=on}}3733m}} oa899m}}11m|}}4800lk=on}}|Ship propulsion=*2 × Parsons steam turbines

• 2 × boilers
• 2 × shafts

12.5lk=on}}|Ship range=|Ship complement=350|Ship sensors=mm}}/42 Mk 1 guns (1x2)

• 8 × {{cvt|4|in|mm}} anti-aircraft guns (4x2)
• 16 × 2-pdr “pom-pom” anti-aircraft guns (1x8, 2x4)
• 20 × 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons

Gun turret>Turret: {{cvtin|mm}}

• Barbette: {{cvt|8|in|mm}}
• Belt: {{cvt|4|-|5|in|mm}}|Ship aircraft=|Ship notes=

}}HMS Roberts was a Royal Navy {{sclass|Roberts|monitor||warship}} 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, of Clydebank, she was laid down 30 April 1940, launched 1 February 1941 and completed on 27 October 1941. She reused the twin 15-inch gun turret of the First World War monitor {{HMS|Marshal Soult||2}}.

Service history

(File:D-day - British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944 A23920.jpg|thumb|left|HMS Roberts shelling German shore batteries, 6 June 1944. {{HMS|Frobisher|D81|6}} is in the background.)Roberts provided bombardment support during Operation Torch in North Africa, where she was damaged by two {{cvt|500|kg|lb|-1}} bombs in the Battle of Béjaïa. She was repaired in time to support Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily) and the Allied landings near Salerno (Operation Avalanche). During the D-Day landings, she was controlled from the headquarters ship {{HMS|Largs}}NEWS,www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/9665309/Commander-Dan-Duff.html, obituaries:Commander Dan Duff, Daily Telegraph, 8 November 2012, 11 November 2012, also positioned off Sword beach.WEB,www.combinedops.com/HEADQUARTERS%20SHIPS.htm#, The HQ Ships Map D-Day-Naval Bombardment(map), Combined Operations United we Conquer, 11 November 2012, She also took part in the (Battle of the Scheldt#Operation Infatuate: Capture of Walcheren Island|Walcheren) operations.{{Citation needed|date = January 2017}}In July 1945, Roberts departed the United Kingdom for the Indian Ocean to support Operation Mailfist, the planned liberation of Singapore. She was near Port Said at the time the Japanese surrender on 15 August, but was not recalled until 11 September by which time she had reached Kilindini Harbour in Kenya. She eventually reached Plymouth on 22 November.Buxton 2008 pp. 208–209Roberts was sold for scrap shortly after the war,{{citation needed|date=December 2019|reason=selling for scrap not mentioned by Buxton until 1965}} but hired back by the navy as an accommodation ship at Devonport until 1965. She was sold for scrap again in July 1965, finally berthing at Thos. W. Ward in Inverkeithing for break up in early August.Buxton 2008 c. 9.10, para. 3One of Roberts{{’}} guns (originally installed on the battleship {{HMS|Resolution|09|2}}) is mounted outside the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, south London, together with one from the battleship {{HMS|Ramillies|07|2}}.WEB,www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30025302, 15 in Mk I Naval Gun, Imperial War Museum, Imperial War Museum Collections Search, 22 February 2012, Imperial War Museum,

Notes

{{reflist}}Hart, Stephen A. The Clearing of the Scheldt Estuary and the Liberation of Walcheren 2 October - 7 November 1944 Second World War 60th Anniversary, number 8, page 15. Central Office of Information, 2005.

References

• BOOK, Buxton, Ian, Big Gun Monitors : Design, Construction and Operations 1914-1945, 2008, Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, United Kingdom, 978-1783469116,
• COLLEDGE2006,
• Lenton, H.T. & Colledge, J. J. Warships of World War II, Ian Allan, London, 1973. {{ISBN|0-7110-0403-X}}
• 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}}
• Hart, Stephen A. The Clearing of the Scheldt Estuary and the Liberation of Walcheren 2 October - 7 November 1944 Second World War 60th Anniversary No8 . Central Office of Information, 2005.

External links

• HMS Roberts at www.uboat.net
• Roberts Class Monitors at www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk

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