HMS Lord Clive
HMS Lord Clive was the lead ship of her class of eight monitors built for the Royal Navy during World War I. Their primary armament was taken from obsolete pre-dreadnought battleships. The ship spent the war in the English Channel bombarding German positions along the Belgian coast as part of the Dover Patrol, often serving as a flagship. She participated in the failed First Ostend Raid in 1918, bombarding the defending coastal artillery as the British attempted to block the Bruges–Ostend Canal. Lord Clive was one of two ships in the class fitted with a single 18-inch (457 mm) gun in 1918, but she only fired four rounds from it in combat before the end of the war in November. The ship conducted gunnery trials after the war and was sold for scrap in 1927.
HMS Lord Clive in her Original Configuration 
HMS Lord Clive in her Original Configuration 
HMS Lord Clive Receiving the 18″ Gun 
HMS Lord Clive With the 18″ Mk.I Gun 
HMS Lord Clive at the Surrender of the German High Seas Fleet November 1918 
HMS Lord Clive at the Surrender of the German High Seas Fleet November 1918 
A Mock-up of the 18″ Mk.I Gun 
Lord Clive class Monitors
