Qualla: HMS Monmouth (1901) https://qualla.com/hms-monmouth-1901 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: HMS Monmouth (1901) https://qualla.com/hms-monmouth-1901 HMS Monmouth (1901): Introduction https://qualla.com/hms-monmouth-1901/ When HMS Monmouth capsized into the night sea off the Chilean coast at 21:58 on 1 November 1914, she took roughly 735 men down with her, and not one of them was saved. The water was too rough, the enemy too close, the dark too complete. The men aboard her, sailors and Royal Marines and a ship's band, simply went under together. The Battle of Coronel, the engagement that killed them, was the first defeat the Royal Navy had suffered at sea in a hundred years. For the families waiting in Devon and Wales and across Britain, it was the day the sea swallowed everyone they had sent to it.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/7/q/hms-monmouth-1901-wp/637q-hms-monmouth-1901-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full HMS Monmouth (1901): A County Cruiser https://qualla.com/hms-monmouth-1901/ Monmouth was the lead ship of a class of ten armoured cruisers, each named for a British county, known together as the County Cruisers. Hers was Monmouthshire, the Welsh county, and she was laid down on the Clyde at Govan in 1899. She was a substantial ship: 463 feet long, design...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/7/q/hms-monmouth-1901-wp/637q-hms-monmouth-1901-a-county-cruiser.mp3 0:06 2 full HMS Monmouth (1901): Called Back to War https://qualla.com/hms-monmouth-1901/ The war recalled her. Mobilised on 4 August 1914, Monmouth was recommissioned and crewed with around 735 men, a company of ratings, officers, 25 musicians of the Royal Marine band, and 69 Royal Marines. They were sent first to hunt German raiders off the Cape Verde and Canary Isl...

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