HMS Marlborough

HMS Marlborough

Six warships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Marlborough" after the Duke of Marlborough:
*"Saint Michael", a second-rate, renamed "Marlborough" in 1706, fought in the Seven Years' War, present in Sir George Pocock's fleet at the taking of Havana from the Spanish in 1762, foundered at sea later in 1762.
*HMS "Marlborough", a third-rate built in 1767 fought in the American Revolutionary War, heavily damaged in the Battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794, and wrecked in 1800.
*HMS "Marlborough" - a third-rate built in 1807 and broken up in 1835.
*HMS "Marlborough" - a first-rate screw ship built in 1855, renamed "Vernon II" in 1904, sank on her way to being broken up in 1924.
*HMS "Marlborough" was an "Iron Duke" class battleship built in 1912 fought in the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and was decommissioned in 1932. This ship evacuated surviving members of the Russian royal family, the Romanovs, from the Crimea during the Russian Civil War.
*HMS "Marlborough" is a Type 23 frigate launched in 1989.


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