British battleship HMS Malaya 1913-1948

Iron Duke-class

Queen Elizabeth-class

Revenge-class

Of the Queen-Elizabeth-class consisting of the Queen Elizabeth, Malaya, Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya and the in 1914 cancelled Agincourt. Preceded by the Iron Duke-class and succeeded by the Revenge-class. Pennant 01. Laid down at Armstrong Whitworth and Company, High Walker, Tyneside, England on 20 October 1913, launched on 18 March 1915, commissioned on 1 February 1916, in reserve since end of 1943, used as target in Loch Striven 15/17 May 1944, decommissioned to be used if needed as bombardment battleship, decommissioned becoming accommodation ship for torpedo school  end 1944 and sold to Metal Industries on 20 February 1948 and broken up at Faslane, Scotland in 1948. Building costs 2.045.709 pond sterling.

Displacement 33.100 (normal)-33.794 (deep load)) tons and as dimensions 196,82 (over all) x 27,58 x 10,1 (deep load) metres or 643.9 x 90.6 x 33 feet. Two sets Brown-Curtiss direct drive steam turbines and 24 boilers supplied via 4 shaft 75.000 shp allowing a speed of 24 knots. With a oil bunker capacity of 3.400 ton and a speed of 12 knots was their range 5.000 nautical miles. The crew numbered 1.217 men. The armament consisted of 4x2-38,1cm/15” Mk I guns, 14x1-15,2cm/6” breech loading Mk XII guns, 2x1-3” quick firing anti aircraft guns, 4x1-3pd/4,7cm saluting guns and 4-53cm/21” submerged torpedo tubes. Krupp cemented armour consisted of a 4”(end aft)-6” (end fore)-13” middle thick belt, upper belt 6”, 4 and 6” bulkheads for and aft, gun turrets, barbettes and conning tower protected by respectively 4.25” (top)-11” (sides)-13” (face), 4-6” (below belt)-7-10” (above belt) and 3” (roof)-4” (revolving hood)-11” (sides), 6” guns protected by 6” thick armour and conning tower tube, torpedo conning tower and torpedo conning tower tube by respectively 4-6”, 6“ and 4“.