Marshal Soult survived the First World War and served as a tender to the gunnery school HMS Excellent before moving to similar duties at Devonport and later Chatham. Her 15-inch guns were removed in 1940 for the new monitor HMS Roberts, while the old hull became a trawler depot ship during the Second World War. Marshal Ney became a base and depot ship, then supported stoker training at Devonport as an accommodation ship under several names. Soult was scrapped in 1946, but Ney remained in use until 1957. The Royal Navy continued to draw training, depot, accommodation, and armament value from ships no longer suited to frontline bombardment.
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Marshal Soult and Marshal Ney find long second lives
Despite their wartime shortcomings, both monitors survive in support roles, while Marshal Soult's guns later arm HMS Roberts and Marshal Ney remains an accommodation ship until 1957.