HMS General Craufurd carries heavy gun barrels to Dunkirk

General Craufurd was named for Robert Craufurd, commander of the Light Division in the Peninsular War who was killed at Ciudad Rodrigo. Her wartime refits replaced the original six-inch guns with longer-ranged Mark VII weapons and added a three-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun. She joined Lord Clive and Prince Eugene in the September 1915 bombardment of Ostend and later carried heavy gun barrels to Dunkirk. The open forecastle and adequate freeboard let crews move 12-inch Mark X barrels and three 28-ton 9.2-inch Mark X barrels by crane, truck, and a thick wooden ramp, with tapered barrels encased in wood so they would roll straight. The deliveries established shore batteries for use against German coastal artillery. Before the Fifth Battle of Ypres, the monitors fired along the coast to feign an amphibious landing, then shifted at dawn to German lines of communication and fired slowly to obstruct movement. Romania declined an offer to buy the ship in 1919, and she was scrapped in 1921.