HMS Marlborough explained

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

• , 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.
• , 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.
• , a third rate built 1807; broken up 1835.
• , a first rate screw ship built 1855; renamed Vernon II 1904; sank on her way to being broken up 1924.
• , an 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.
• , a Type 23 frigate launched 1989; sold to the Chilean Navy 2008; renamed Almirante Condell.

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.

Notes and References

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