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Hms Marlborough (1912) | colspan="2" align="center"| | | lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|RN Ensign | | rdered: | 1911 | | aid down: | January 1912 at Portsmouth dockyard | | aunched: | 1912 | | ommissioned: | June 1914 | | ecommissioned: | | | ate: | Sold for scrap | | truck: | 1932 | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 25,000 tons (normal), 29,500 deep load | | ength: | 622 feet 9 inches | | eam: | 90 feet | | raught: | 32 feet 9 inches | | ropulsion: | 4 shaft Parsons Turbines, driving four propellers, 18 Babcock & Wilcox or Yarrow boilers delivering 29,000 hp | | peed: | 21.25 knots | | ange: | 14,000 nm at 10 knots | | omplement: | 925 | | rmament: | Main battery: ten 13.5"/45 guns in five twin turrets Secondary battery: twelve 6"/45 guns in single casemate mountings; two 3"/20 anti-aircraft guns Four 21" submerged beam torpedo tubes | HMS ''Marlborough was an Iron Duke''-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and launched in 1912. In World War I she served in the 1st Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow. She fought at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, where she was hit by a torpedo, killing two and injuring two. See HMS Marlborough for other ships of this name. Marlborough
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