King George V and Vice Admiral Roger Keyes inspecting the crew of the Royal Navy monitor HMS Marshal Soult at Dunkirk, 13 August 1918.

 

HMS Marshal Soult was a Royal Navy Marshal Ney-class monitor constructed in the opening years of the First World War. Laid down as M14, she was named after the French general of the Napoleonic Wars Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult. She served in both World Wars and was decommissioned in 1946.


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