HMS Marlborough (1912)
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.jpg/300px-HMS_Marlborough_(1912).jpg) HMS Marlborough |
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Marlborough |
| Ordered: | 1911 |
| Builder: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 25 January 1912 |
| Launched: | 24 October 1912 |
| Commissioned: | June 1914 |
| Struck: | 1932 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 27 June 1932 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Iron Duke class battleship |
| Displacement: | 25,000 tons (normal) 29,500 tons(deep load) |
| Length: | 622 ft 9 in (189.8 m) |
| Beam: | 90 ft (27 m) |
| Draught: | 32 ft 9 in (10.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 shaft Parsons steam turbines, driving four propellers, 18 Babcock & Wilcox or Yarrow boilers delivering 29,000 hp |
| Speed: | 21.25 knots (39.36 km/h) |
| Range: | 14,000 nautical miles (25,930 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 925 |
| Armament: | 10 × 13.5 inch/45 guns in five twin turrets 12 × 6 inch/45 guns in single casemate mountings 2 × 3 inch/20 anti-aircraft guns 4 × 21 inch submerged beam torpedo tubes |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Marlborough.
HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and launched in 1912. In World War I she served in the 1st Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow. She fought at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, where she was hit by a torpedo, killing two and injuring two.
In 1919, during the Russian Civil War the Marlborough was on duty in the Black Sea and on orders of King George V rescued his aunt, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, and other members of the Russian Imperial Family, including Grand Duke Nicholas and Prince Felix Yusupov.
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