H.M.S. Marlborough (1912)

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H.M.S. Marlborough (1912)
Pendant Number: 79 (Aug 1914)
85 (Jan 1918)
66 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Devonport Royal Dockyard[2]
Ordered: 1911 Programme[3]
Laid down: 25 Jan, 1912[4]
Launched: 24 Oct, 1912[5]
Commissioned: 2 Jun, 1914
Sold: 27 Jun, 1932[6]
Fate: Scrapped

Boats

In July 1914, the ship was appropriated 42-foot motor launch No. 192, though the boat was not yet delivered from the contractor.[7]

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.[8] Her class received their directors after King George V received hers, and likely to a similar design, placing the light aloft tower atop the spotting top.[9]

Her secondary battery directors were installed sometime in 1917.[10]

Jutland

Reports

She was under the command of George P. Ross. Torpedoed and eventually forced to abandon the line to dash home, she was back with the fleet by 31 July.[11]

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 are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 31.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 31.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  7. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 122 of 10 July, 1914.
  8. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships, pp. 9-10.
  9. Letter in D'Eyncourt Papers at the National Maritime Museum's Caird Library, DEY/27
  10. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. p. 16.
  11. Account_of_Morgan_Singer_of_the_Great_War
  12. Grant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 461.
  13. Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 438.
  14. Ross Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 46.
  15. The Navy List (October, 1917). p. 395o.
  16. The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 842.
  17. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  18. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  19. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  20. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  21. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  22. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  23. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  24. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  25. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  26. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

Bibliography


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