Built as a monitor under yard No 433 by Vickers at Barrow for the Brazilian Government, taken over by the British Government in 1914.
24 August 1912 laid down.
17 June 1913 launched as the JAVARY.
Displacement 1,280 ton, dim. 81.31 x 15 x 1.7m.
Powered by two triple expansion steam engines, 1.450 ihp, twin shafts, speed 12 knots.
Armament2 – 6 inch guns, 2 – 4.7 inch howitzers, 4 – 3pdr guns and 1 – 3 inch AA gun.
Crew?
08 August 1914 bought by the British Government and renamed HMS HUMBER.
September 1914 completed.
HMS HUMBER was a Humber-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Originally built by Vickers for Brazil as JAVARY (Revolt).
Brazilian monitor JAVARY (1913), the British-built lead ship of the Javary class of monitors; refused by the Brazilian Navy because of financial setbacks in the Brazilian economy; she was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War along with her sister ships SEVERN and MERSEY.
Service history
HUMBER took part in operations along the Belgian coast October to November 1914. In March 1915, she was towed to Malta, and arrived off Gallipoli in June. She remained in Egyptian waters until August 1917, when the vessel became a guardship at Akaba, before being sent to Mudros in October 1918 and on to Ismid, Turkey, arriving there on 12 November.
HUMBER returned to England in March 1919, and was refitted prior to being towed to Murmansk in May 1919, for service with the British forces in the Russian Civil War. She left Archangel in September 1919 and was towed back to England for paying off.
HUMBER was sold on 17 September 1920 to F. Rijsdijk in the Netherlands and converted to a crane lighter. She was still afloat in 1938 and was probably broken up post 1945.
(A Dutch web-site gives that she was sold in 1938 to France she still carried the name HUMBER when sold.)
http://forum.netmarine.net/viewtopic.php?t=3985 gives that she was under French flag, her fate not given.
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_HUMBER_(1913)