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Torpedoed and eventually forced to abandon the line to dash home, she was back with the fleet by 31 July.<ref>[[Account_of_Morgan_Singer_of_the_Great_War]]</ref>
 
Torpedoed and eventually forced to abandon the line to dash home, she was back with the fleet by 31 July.<ref>[[Account_of_Morgan_Singer_of_the_Great_War]]</ref>

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H.M.S. Marlborough
Career Details
Pendant Number: 66 (April, 1918)[1]
Ordered: 1911-1912 Programme
Built By: Devonport Royal Dockyard
Laid Down: 25 January, 1912
Launched: 24 October, 1912
Commissioned: 2 June, 1914
Sold: 27 June, 1932
Fate: Scrapped

Alterations

In 1913, Marlborough was slated as part of the twelve ship order to receive a director along the lines of that developed in Neptune. She was fully equipped sometime in 1914 prior to the start of the war.[2]

Her secondary battery directors were installed sometime in 1917.[3]

Jutland

Main article

Torpedoed and eventually forced to abandon the line to dash home, she was back with the fleet by 31 July.[4]

Fate

Marlborough paid off at Devonport on 1 November, 1920 for a major refit, for which £211,097 was voted in the 1921 Naval Estimates. During her refit she was manned by a care-and-maintenance party under Commander Harry Bingham Jermain, O.B.E.[Citation needed]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. p. 33.
  2. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, pp. 9-10.
  3. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, p. 16.
  4. Account_of_Morgan_Singer_of_the_Great_War
  5. Navy List (December, 1914). p. 355.
  6. Navy List (October, 1917). p. 395o.
  7. Navy List (December, 1918). p. 842.

Bibliography

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