damian entwistleToday's Flickr photo with the most hits was taken in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard: HMS M33. She was built during the First World War as a monitor (ship designed for shallow water bombardment).
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: HMS M33, Portsmouth.
M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy built in 1915. She saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia during the Allied Intervention in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, boom defence workshop and floating office, being renamed HMS Minerva and Hulk C23 during her long life.
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