An item reported that the firm Armstrong received the order to built a dreadnought on her shipyard at Newcastle which was a gift of Malaya to England and which ship should have the largest possible combat value.(1)
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1. This was the later battleship HMS Malay of the Queen-Elizabeth-class, laid down on 20 October 1913, launched on 18 March two years later, commissioned on 1 February 1916, decommissioned in 1944 and became a torpedo school accommodation ship and stricken on 12 April 1948 after being sold on 20 February to be broken up. She fought in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May-1 June where she was severely damaged causing the lives of 65 of her crewmembers. During the battle she had hoisted the red-white-black-yellow ensign of the Federated Malay States (nowadays Malaysia without Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore Portsmouth in the House of Commons dealing that none of the money collected by Malaya for a dreadnought would before the House of Commons had the opportunity to accept or refuse the gift. Minister of navy Winston Churchill however made clear that the cabinet accepted the gift and that a contract for her building already was signed and the building would start any moment. Bertram Godfray Falle (21 November 1859 Jersey-1 November 1948), 1st Baron Portsea, barrister and as politician member of the Conservative Party (in origin he was a Liberal Unionist).
