High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Roberts was an Abercrombie-class monitor of the Royal Navy that served in the First World War. On November 3, 1914, Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel offered Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, the use of four 14in/45cal BL MK II twin gun turrets, originally destined for the Greek ship Salamis. These turrets could not be delivered to the German builders, due to the British Naval blockade. The Royal Navy immediately designed a class of monitors, designed for shore bombardment, to use the turrets.

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