13 Facts About HMS Malaya

HMS Malaya was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s.

HMS Malaya's was named in honour of the Federated Malay States in British Malaya, whose government paid for her construction.

HMS Malaya's served in Rear-Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas's 5th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet.

HMS Malaya's took part in the Battle of Jutland, on 31 May 1916, where she was hit eight times and took major damage and heavy crew casualties.

Uniquely among the ships at the battle, HMS Malaya flew the red-white-black-yellow ensign of the Federated Malay States.

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On 17 November 1922 HMS Malaya carried the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, from Istanbul into exile on Malta.

Unlike her sisters Queen Elizabeth, Warspite and Valiant, HMS Malaya did not undergo a comprehensive reconstruction between the wars.

HMS Malaya's did receive a Le Cheminant deck watch from the Royal Observatory on 5 April 1933.

HMS Malaya served in the Mediterranean in 1940, escorting convoys and operating against the Italian fleet.

On 7 March 1941, while escorting convoy SL 67, HMS Malaya encountered the German capital ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau that were conducting the Operation Berlin raid which targeted Allied convoys.

Between 15 and 17 May 1944, HMS Malaya was used in Loch Striven as a target ship for inert Highball bouncing bomb prototypes, one of which punched a hole in the ship's side.

HMS Malaya's was reactivated just before the Normandy landings to act as a reserve bombardment battleship.

HMS Malaya was finally withdrawn from all service at the end of 1944 and became an accommodation ship for a torpedo school.