HMS Malaya

Malaya about 1919–1921
History
United Kingdom
Name	Malaya
Namesake	Federated Malay States
Ordered	1913
Builder	Armstrong Whitworth, South Tyneside
Cost	£2,945,709
Laid down	20 October 1913
Launched	18 March 1915
Commissioned	1 February 1916
Decommissioned	1 December 1944
Stricken	12 April 1948
Identification	Pennant number: 3A (1914); 84 (Jan 18);[1] 06 (Apr 18); 01 (Nov 19)[2]
Motto	Malem Fero Malis ("I bring evil to the evil")
Fate	Sold for scrap, 20 February 1948
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Queen Elizabeth-class battleship
Displacement	32,590 long tons (33,113 t) 33,260 long tons (33,794 t) (Deep load)
Length	639 ft 9 in (195 m)
Beam	90 ft 7 in (27.6 m)
Draught	33 ft (10.1 m)
Installed power	24 Babcock & Wilcox boilers 75,000 shp (56,000 kW)
Propulsion	4 shafts; 2 steam turbine sets
Speed	24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Range	5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	1,217 (1919)
Armament	4 × twin 15 in (381 mm) guns 14 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns 2 × single 3 in (76 mm) AA guns 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Waterline belt: 13 in (330 mm) Deck: 1–3 in (25–76 mm) Barbettes: 7–10 in (178–254 mm) Gun turrets: 11–13 in (279–330 mm) Conning tower: 13 in (330 mm)

HMS Malaya was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class super-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. Shortly after commissioning in early 1916, she participated in the Battle of Jutland of the First World War as part of the Grand Fleet.

Malaya spent the interwar period between the Mediterranean Fleet, Atlantic Fleet, and Home Fleet. She transported Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI into exile and served during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. Apart from this, her interwar career was uneventful.

With the outbreak of the Second World War, Malaya served with the Mediterranean Fleet, serving as a convoy escort and fighting in the Battle of Calabria and Operation Grog. In March 1941, she was transferred to the North Atlantic to perform convoy escort duties, during which she prevented the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from attacking a convoy. Torpedoed in that month by the German submarine U-106, Malaya received repairs in New York. Malaya was withdrawn from serving at the end of 1944 and used as an accommodation ship for the training establishment HMS Vernon. She was ultimately broken up and sold for scrap in 1948.