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This week in the War, 17–23 February 1941: British monitor HMS Terror is fatally damaged off the coast of Libya

Posted on February 20, 2013 by secondbysecond

Monitors were the Royal Navy’s ugly ducklings. Slow, ungainly, and strange to behold. The calibre of their armament matched that of a battleship—i.e. 15 inch guns—but they possessed only two such guns, mounted in a single turret. A casual observer … Continue reading →

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