| Name: | MALAYA |
| Type: | Battleship |
| Keel: | 21/10/1913 |
| Launched: | 18/03/1915 |
| Completed: | 16/02/1916 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
| Yard: | High Walker |
| Yard Number: | 867 |
| Dimensions: | 31465disp - 35380disp, 600.0 x 90.5 x 31.25(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, DR geared, 75000shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 25.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 2 x 15.0ins, 12 x 1 x 6.0ins, 4 x 2 x 4.0ins AA, 2 x 8 x 2pdr AA guns; |
| 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; 3 x aircraft, 1 x catapult (*) | |
| History: | |
| 16/02/1916 | British Royal Navy |
| 20/02/1948 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Queen Elizabeth Class of Battleships |
| Additional ship to the QE Class, paid for by the Federated Malay States | |
| The first warship to be laid down at the High Walker yard | |
| Sustained eight hits from large calibre shells at the Battle of Jutland | |
| 1927 - 1929: Rebuilt with funnels trunked into one and torpedo bulges added | |
| 20/02/1948: Sold to BISCO - British Iron & Steel Corporation | |
| 12/04/1948: Arrived at Faslane for breaking up by Metal Industries Ltd | |
| (*) Armament listed is post modernisation |
Above photo in original 2 funnel configuration courtesy of Dan McDonald
Above photo in original 2 funnel configuration is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Above photo in original 2 funnel configuration courtesy of Photoship
Above photo showing trunked funnels is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo showing trunked funnels is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo showing trunked funnels is courtesy of Photoship