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{|align="right" border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 0 0 1em 0.5em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" width="300" |- !style="color: white; height: 30px; background: crimson;"| Career !style="color: white; height: 30px; background: crimson;"| Details |- |Pendant Number: |66 (April, 1918)<ref>Dittmar; Colledge. p. 33.</ref> |- |Ordered: |1911-1912 Programme |- |Built By: |[[Devonport Royal Dockyard]] |- |Laid Down: |25 January, 1912 |- |Launched: |24 October, 1912 |- |Commissioned: |2 June, 1914 |- |Sold: |27 June, 1932 |- |Fate: |Scrapped |- |} ==Alterations== In 1913, ''Marlborough'' was slated as part of the [[British Adoption of the Director#Early Orders|twelve ship order]] to receive a director along the lines of that developed in ''Neptune''. She was fully equipped sometime in 1914 prior to the start of the war.<ref>''The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships'', pp. 9-10.</ref> Her class received their directors after ''King George V'' received hers, and likely to a similar design, placing the light aloft tower atop the spotting top.<ref>Letter in D'Eyncourt Papers at the National Maritime Museum's Caird Library, DEY/27</ref> Her secondary battery directors were installed sometime in 1917.<ref>''The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships'', p. 16.</ref> ==Jutland== :[[H.M.S. Marlborough at the Battle of Jutland|<small>Reports</small>]] She was under the command of [[george Parish Ross|George P. Ross]]. Torpedoed and eventually forced to abandon the line to dash home, she was back with the fleet by 31 July.<ref>[[Account_of_Morgan_Singer_of_the_Great_War]]</ref> ==Fate== ''Marlborough'' paid off at Devonport on 1 November, 1920 for a major refit, for which £211,097 was voted in the 1921 Naval Estimates. During her refit she was manned by a care-and-maintenance party under Commander Harry Bingham Jermain, O.B.E.{{CN}} {{CAPTAINS}} *{{CaptRN}} [[Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant|Edmund P. F. G. Grant]], 25 May, 1914,<ref>Grant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196 42. f. 461.</ref> in command at start of war.<ref>Corbett. ''Naval Operations, Volume I'', p. 438.</ref> *Captain [[George Parish Ross]], 2 September, 1914.<ref>Ross Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 46.</ref> *Captain [[Edward Buxton Kiddle|Edward B. Kiddle]], 11 February, 1917.<ref>''Navy List'' (October, 1917). p. 395''o''.</ref> *Captain [[Charles Duncan Johnson|Charles D. Johnson]], 25 October, 1918.<ref>''Navy List'' (December, 1918). p. 842.</ref> *Captain [[Henry Ralph Crooke]], *Captain [[Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton]], *Captain [[Thomas Norman James]], *Captain [[Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax]], *Captain [[Hugh Justin Tweedie]], likely prior to December, 1917, as he was made Commodore then. ==See Also== {{WP|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Marlborough_(1912)}} *[http://dreadnoughtproject.org/models/ships/HMS_Iron_Duke/ 3D Model] of ''Iron Duke'' available for licensing ==Footnotes== {{reflist}} ==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} *{{BibDittmarColledge}} *{{BibCorbettNOI}} *{{BibUKFireControlInHMShips1919}} *{{BibParkesBritishBattleships}} {{refend}} {{Iron Duke Class (1912)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Marlborough}} {{CatShipDreadnought|UK}}

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