HMS Marlborough

Six warships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Marlborough after the Duke of Marlborough:

• HMS St Michael (1669), a second rate, renamed Marlborough 1706; fought in the Seven Years' War; present in Sir George Pocock's fleet at the taking of Havana from the Spanish 1762; foundered at sea 1762.
• HMS Marlborough (1767), a third rate built 1767; fought in the American Revolutionary War; heavily damaged in the Battle of the Glorious First of June 1794; wrecked 1800.
• HMS Marlborough (1807), a third rate built 1807; broken up 1835.
• HMS Marlborough (1855), a first rate screw ship built 1855; renamed Vernon II 1904; sank on her way to being broken up 1924.
• HMS Marlborough (1912), an Iron Duke-class battleship built 1912; fought in the Battle of Jutland 1916; decommissioned 1932. This ship evacuated surviving members of the Russian royal family, the Romanovs, from the Crimea during the Russian Civil War.
• HMS Marlborough (F233), a Type 23 frigate launched 1989; sold to the Chilean Navy 2008; renamed Almirante Condell.

The bombardment of Marro Castle on Havana - HMS Marlborough, left

HMS Marlborough was also an Electrical Training shore station in Eastbourne during and shortly after World War II.[1]

Battle honours

Ships named Marlborough have earned the following battle honours:

• Martinique, 1762
• Havana, 1762
• St Vincent, 1780
• The Saints, 1782
• First of June, 1794
• Jutland, 1916

Literature

• The book HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour by Nicholas Monsarrat featured a fictional sloop named HMS Marlborough in World War II.

1. "Royal Naval Electrical Training before the establishment of the Electrical Branch in 1947 and specifically during World War Two". Dykes, Godfrey. Retrieved 28 September 2019.