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HMS Gorgon (1914)
HMS ''Gorgon'' and her sister ship were two monitors originally built as coastal defence ships for the Royal Norwegian Navy, as HNoMS ''Nidaros'' and ''Bjørgvin'' respectively, by Armstrong Whitworth at Elswick. She was purchased from Norway at the beginning of the First World War, but was not completed until 1918 although she had been launched over three years earlier. She engaged targets in Occupied Flanders for the last several months of the war and fired the last shots of the war against such targets on 15 October 1918. She was used as a target ship after several attempts to sell her had fallen through before being sold for scrap in 1928.
==Background==
''Nidaros'' was ordered by Norway in 1913 to supplement the older and classes of coastal defense ships. She would have been known in Norway as P/S ''Nidaros''; P/S stands for ''Panserskip'' ("armoured ship"), while ''Nidaros'' was the old name for the Norwegian city of Trondheim. However, when the First World War broke out, the Royal Navy requisitioned most warships under construction in Britain for foreign powers and refunded the two-thirds of the ''Bjørgvin''s £370,000 purchase price already paid by the Norwegians.〔Buxton, p. 107〕
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