HMS Malaya

HMS Malaya was one of five Queen Elizabeth class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Company built her at High Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, and launched her in March 1915, and the government of the Federated Malay States paid for her construction. Two sets of Parsons steam turbines of 75,000 shaft horsepower and 24 Babcock and Wilcox boilers drove her on two shafts, and her main armament was eight 15 inch guns in four twin turrets. She fought at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 and carried the exiled Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI in the interwar years. In the Second World War she served in the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic, was torpedoed by U-106 in March 1941, and was broken up in 1948.