Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, M24's primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk VI gun removed from the Edgar-class cruiser HMS Endymion.

Producing 640 horsepower, these allowed a top speed of eleven knots.

HMS M24 ordered in March, 1915, as part of the War Emergency Programme of ship construction.

She was laid down at the Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd shipyard at Govan in March 1915, launched on 9 August 1915, and completed in October 1915.

M24 was sold on 29 January 1920 for conversion to a mercantile oil tanker, and renamed Satoe.