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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 ...
Maps showing the approach of the fleets to the Battle of Jutland and details of the two major actions. The Battle of Jutland was fought on 31 May and 1 June 1916, in the waters of the North Sea, between forces of the Royal Navy Grand Fleet and Imperial German Navy High Seas Fleet.
English: A map of the Battle of Jutland. Adapted from File:Jutland1916.jpg , a work of the Department of History at the United States Military Academy, which is in the public domain. Additional details taken from Sondhaus, Lawrence Navies in Modern World History , pp. 191–192
The most powerful British ships of all (the 15-inch-guns of the 5th Battle Squadron) directly observed German battleships crossing astern of them in action with British light forces, at ranges of 3 mi (2.6 nmi; 4.8 km) or less, and gunners on HMS Malaya made ready to fire, but her captain declined, [106] deferring to the authority of Rear ...
Given the speed of the new ships, envisaged as 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph), it was decided that the battlecruiser would not be needed and a fourth battleship would be built instead. When the Federation of Malay States offered to fund a further capital ship, the Admiralty decided to add a fifth unit to the class, HMS Malaya. [8]
The following tables show the hits scored on individual ships at the Battle of Jutland. They provide good insights into when conditions favoured each of the navies and an image of the standard of gunnery in both forces. Hits on capital ships, 15:48-16:54. HMS Lion
HMS Warspite Captain E. M. Philpotts; HMS Malaya Captain the Honourable A. D. E. H. Boyle; In the clash with the German I Scouting Group under Admiral Franz von Hipper , the 5th Battle Squadron "fired with extraordinary rapidity and accuracy" (according to Reinhard Scheer ), damaging the battlecruisers SMS Lützow and Seydlitz and a number of ...
The List of ships sunk at the Battle of Jutland is a list of ships which were lost during the Battle of Jutland. This battle was fought between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet on 31 May and 1 June 1916, during the First World War. The list is in chronological order of the time of sinking.