HMS Marlborough

The bombardment of Marro Castle on Havana - HMS Marlborough, left

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, sold to the Chilean Navy in 2008 and renamed CNS Almirante Condell (FF-06).

Literature

• The book "HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour" by Nicholas Monsarrat featured a fictional sloop named HMS Marlborough in World War II.