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Gorgon-class monitor
The ''Gorgon'' class monitors were a class of monitors in service with the Royal Navy during World War I. and her sister ship were originally built as coastal defence ships for the Royal Norwegian Navy, as HNoMS ''Nidaros'' and HNoMS ''Bjørgvin'' respectively but requisitioned for British use. ''Gorgon'' commissioned first, in June 1918 and bombarded German positions and other targets in Occupied Flanders. She fired the last shots of the war by the Royal Navy into Belgium on 15 October 1918. She was offered for sale after the war, but was used as a target ship when there were no takers. She was sold for scrap in 1928. ''Glatton'' was destroyed by a magazine explosion only days after she was completed in September 1918 while in Dover Harbour. She remained a hazard to shipping until the wreck was partially salvaged and the remains moved out of the way during 1925–26.
==Background==
The Norwegians ordered two coast defence vessels in January 1913 from the British shipbuilder Armstrong Whitworth for delivery in twenty-four months to supplement the older and classes of coastal defence ships. Their dimensions were limited to a length overall of and a beam of to fit in the drydock at Horten. Armstrong's design was for a ship with a designed displacement of with an armament of two 50-calibre Armstrong guns mounted in single turrets fore and aft. Four 50-calibre guns were also mounted in single turrets; two of which were superfiring over the main turrets and the others were on each side of the superstructure. Anti-torpedo boat defense would be provided by six guns mounted in the superstructure. Two submerged torpedo tubes were also to be mounted. The armour belt protected most of the waterline and was thick, but tapered towards the ends. The protective deck was thick and ran the full length of the ship.〔Buxton, p. 106〕
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