CHAPTER THREE

PHOTOGRAPHS

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Numbers 4 & 5 are reproduced with the permission of the Harland and Wolff Photographic Collection, National Museums & Galleries of Northern Ireland, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum;

Number 9, 14 & 15 by the courtesy of the Imperial War Museum, London; Numbers 16 & 17 with the consent of John Freeman, of North Chailey, East Sussex;

Number 18 with the permission of the Liddle Collection, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds;

Number 20 by the courtesy of the Maritime Photo Library, 8 Jetty Street, Cromer; Number 22 by the kindness of Nigel Gillard, Southdown Road, Bath,

Number 23 with the permission of Navy News, HMS Nelson, Portsmouth.

The creators of the British Monitor Fleet
	Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty
	Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, First Sea Lord
Plans for the M29 Class

M30 under construction with M29 on adjoining slip

Launch of M30 0n 23 June 1915

M30's officers (Lto R) Ch.Gnr.H.Martin, RN, Lt.F.Hanna, RN Lt.Cdr.E.Lockyer, DSO, RN (Retd), Temp. Surgeon H.Bates,RN, and Sub Lt. (n) D. Muir, RNR.

	(L to R) "Number One", "The Owner", and "Pilot"
A rather bashful gun crew man a weapon similar to that mounted in M30

M30 leaving Mudros.

The Sulva Plain in 1996 had hardly altered since 1915. This photo was taken from Lala Baba looking north over the Salt Lake to the Kiretch Tepe

	"Holitzer country" - Irish troops on the Kiretch Tepe.
	Mityleni town harbour
	Port Iero and its narrow, winding entrance
The CinC's visit to Port Iero in Jan., 1916. His yacht Triad is in the front row (L) with M22. Roberts (L) and Canopus (R) are in the next row; behind Canopus is Raglan and the two ships in the distance are, probably, M16 and M30.

Captain Grants Canapus moored in Port Iero.

Photo taken in 2000 from Cape Aspro where the Asprokarvo battery was sited, demonstrates the funerability of Long Island and NW Bay (to the left)

A recent photo of the southern end of Long Island taken from Cape Aspro

Lt.Cdr.. Lockyer (2nd from R.) confers with RNAS aircrews outside their mess on Long Island a few days before his ship was sunk

M30 still ablaze on the day after she was hit.

The fires have died out: M30, aground, awaits the salvage party.

M30 afterCaptain Carvers's demolition charges had done their work.

	Stoker Walter Gillard, RN, who lost his life in M30, had served in Beatty's flagship Lion during battles of the Heligoland Bight and the Dogger Bank.
	Outmoded instruments of war. M33 lies in a basin in Portsmouth Dockyard in 1992, close to the stern of Victory, while the last flyable Vulcan circles overhead.
	M33 in dry dock in Portsmouth Dockyard in 1998 in the care of the M33 Project.

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PHOTOGRAPHS

The creators of the British Monitor Fleet

Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty

Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, First Sea Lord

Plans for the M29 Class

M30 under construction with M29 on adjoining slip

Launch of M30 0n 23 June 1915

M30's officers

(Lto R) Ch.Gnr.H.Martin, RN, Lt.F.Hanna, RN Lt.Cdr.E.Lockyer, DSO, RN (Retd), Temp. Surgeon H.Bates,RN, and Sub Lt. (n) D. Muir, RNR.

(L to R) "Number One", "The Owner", and "Pilot"

A rather bashful gun crew man a weapon similar to that mounted in M30

M30 leaving Mudros.

The Sulva Plain in 1996 had hardly altered since 1915. This photo was taken from Lala Baba looking north over the Salt Lake to the Kiretch Tepe

"Holitzer country" - Irish troops on the Kiretch Tepe.

Mityleni town harbour

Port Iero and its narrow, winding entrance

The CinC's visit to Port Iero in Jan., 1916. His yacht Triad is in the front row (L) with M22. Roberts (L) and Canopus (R) are in the next row; behind Canopus is Raglan and the two ships in the distance are, probably, M16 and M30.

Captain Grants Canapus moored in Port Iero.

Photo taken in 2000 from Cape Aspro where the Asprokarvo battery was sited, demonstrates the funerability of Long Island and NW Bay (to the left)

A recent photo of the southern end of Long Island taken from Cape Aspro

Lt.Cdr.. Lockyer (2nd from R.) confers with RNAS aircrews outside their mess on Long Island a few days before his ship was sunk

M30 still ablaze on the day after she was hit.

The fires have died out: M30, aground, awaits the salvage party.

M30 afterCaptain Carvers's demolition charges had done their work.

Stoker Walter Gillard, RN, who lost his life in M30, had served in Beatty's flagship Lion during battles of the Heligoland Bight and the Dogger Bank.

Outmoded instruments of war. M33 lies in a basin in Portsmouth Dockyard in 1992, close to the stern of Victory, while the last flyable Vulcan circles overhead.

M33 in dry dock in Portsmouth Dockyard in 1998 in the care of the M33 Project.

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