HMS Abercrombie F109
HMS Abercrombie F109 was a Royal Navy Roberts-class monitor of the Second World War.
Laid down on 26 April 1941, and completed on 5 May 1943 and built by Vickers Armstrong, Tyne.. She used a 15-inch gun turret originally built as a spare for Furious.
Service history
On completion, Abercrombie deployed to the Mediterranean and in July 1943, she provided support at the Amphibious Battle of Gela during the Allied invasion of Sicily. While supporting the Allied landings near Salerno on 9 September 1943, (Operation Avalanche), a contact mine damaged her. Abercrombie arrived at Malta on 15 August 1944, following repairs at the drydock in Taranto. She was damaged again on 21 August 1944 when she struck two mines, whilst southeast of Malta.
On completion of her repairs in July 1945, Abercrombie sailed to the Indian Ocean to support Operation Mailfist, the planned liberation of Singapore. Abercrombie was near Aden at the time of the Japanese surrender on 15 August, but was not recalled until 11 September. By this time she was approaching the Seychelles Islands. Abercrombie returned to Sheerness on 2 November 1945. Abercrombie was subsequently used for gunnery training and also as an accommodation ship through 1954. She was scrapped at Barrow on 24 December 1954 after an 11 year career.
HMS Abercrombie 
HMS Abercrombie F109 
USS Moreno (AT-87) rendering assistance to HMS Abercrombie, 10 September 1943, in the Gulf of Salerno 
HMS Abercrombie F109 
HMS Abercrombie 
The Royal Navy Monitor HMS Abercrombie 
HMS Abercrombie seen in the 1950s 
HMS Abercrombie seen in 1943
