HMS M28

Intended as a shore bombardment vessel, M28's primary armament was a single 9.2 inch Mk VI gun removed from the Edgar-class cruiser HMS Grafton.

She was equipped with a four-shaft Bolinder four-cylinder semi-diesel engine with 640 horsepower that allowed a top speed of eleven knots.

HMS M28 was laid down at the Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd shipyard at Middlesbrough on 1 March 1915.

During most of her service in the First World War M28 was attached to the Aegean Squadron and tasked with coastal bombardment of Turkish positions.

As a result of the battle M28 was sunk and suffered 11 of her crew killed while the rest were rescued by Allied vessels.

Memorial to Lt. Commander Donald Priaulx MacGregor in Town Church, Guernsey