HMS Malaya was a British battleship laid down in 1913, launched in March 1915, and commissioned in the Royal Navy in February 1916. The total length of the ship was 197 m, width 27.6 m, and a full displacement of 33,000 tons. The maximum speed of battleship Malaya was around 25-26 knots. The main armament at the time of the launch was eight 381 mm guns in four twin turrets. The secondary armament consists of 14 152 mm guns and 4 533 mm torpedo tubes.
HMS Malaya was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships. Battleships of this type were built just before the outbreak of World War I, as a British response to the rapid naval armament of the Second German Reich. They are often referred to as super-dreadnoughts - for the first time in the history of the navy, 381 mm artillery with 42-caliber barrels was used on them, and for the first time battleships reached a speed of about 25 knots. Many of the solutions used on this type were reflected in later British battleships. All ships of the Queen Elizabeth class also underwent significant modifications in the interwar period: first of all, they received new engine rooms, better and more efficient boilers, their armor was thickened, the profile of superstructures was changed and the anti-aircraft artillery was significantly expanded. Thanks to these upgrades, these ships were not inferior to other German or Italian battleships, as well as many Japanese battleships - with the exception of the Yamato class. The battleship HMS Malaya was built at the Armstrong Whitworth shipyard in Newcastle. From the moment he entered service, he entered the Grand Fleet. In 1916 he took part in the Battle of Jutland. Despite direct hits, however, it did not suffer any serious damage in that battle. Until 1918, HMS Malaya did not come into combat contact with the enemy. At the beginning of World War II, it operated primarily in the Mediterranean, escorting convoys to and from the Suez Canal and in the North Atlantic against the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. In March 1941, it was damaged in a torpedo attack made by U-106 near Cape Verde. However, it managed to reach Trinidad first, and then to New York, where it was renovated until July 1941. After returning to the line - from July 1941 to mid-1943 - he escorted convoys to Malta and Cape Town. At the end of 1944 it was placed in reserve, and in 1948 it was sold for scrap.