#HMS Marlborough

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HMS Marlborough and Minotaur, by Adolphus Knell (1802-1875)

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HMS Marlborough in the Mediterranean, 1855 (NMM).

The experience of 'fleet time', a term in naval training that endures to the present day, was remarkably varied. Naval cadets and midshipmen of the 1850s and 1860s were most likely to serve in larger ships where there was an increased likelihood of the services of a naval instructor. On foreign stations a large vessel, usually an elderly wooden walled 'liner' converted to screw propulsion, would serve as the flagship but as a general rule big ships were based closer to home. [...] Lord Charles Beresford left Britannia on completion of training in 1861 bound for the battleship HMS Marlborough, an old 121 gun 'liner' that had been fitted with a single screw engine in 1853. Despite this innovation she was firmly part of the old navy with a complement of 950 and an overly long sick list due in part to poor habitability.

— H. W. Dickinson, Educating the Royal Navy: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Education for Officers

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The Wreck of the HMS Gloucester

The HMS Gloucester was wrecked in the North Sea, about 30 miles off the shore of Norfolk, England, shortly after dawn on 6 May 1682. It was a warship in the navy of Charles II of England (r. 1660-1685), and at the time of its loss, it was the flagship of a small fleet of ten ships on their way to Scotland to fetch Mary of Modena, the pregnant wife of James, Duke of York, the brother of Charles and the future James II of England (r. 1685-1688).

James Recalled from Exile

James and his wife had been in virtual exile for the best part of three years because they were Catholics, and a vitriolic anti-Catholic mood had spread through the nation in the late 1670s. But Charles, aware of his own failing health and his lack of a legitimate child, was becoming increasingly anxious to rehabilitate James, as his heir, at the center of government.

James, for his part, now that he was being allowed back into London was anxious to make a great show of his return to center stage. So, instead of a low-key voyage in a single royal yacht, which would have been his more usual style of transport, he decided to travel in a third-rate warship, accompanied by five other warships and four royal yachts. The third-rates were the favored ships for longer voyages, faster and more nimble than their larger consorts, and more comfortable and capacious than the smaller ones. The disaster, however, that ensued, and which resulted in the loss of over 150 lives, caused a great furore at the time, and has been a subject of much conjecture and controversy ever since.

On its final voyage, the Gloucester was carrying not just James, but a large coterie of his most loyal friends and supporters, aristocrats like the Earl of Roxburgh, merchants such as Sir James Dick who was Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the slave trader William Freeman, the famous scientist and physician Sir Charles Scarborough, and military men like John Churchill, who was later to become the Duke of Marlborough. As well as these notables, a large number of James' royal household were on board, together with a handpicked selection of royal musicians for entertainment on route, and his own huntsmen for his amusement when he arrived. In addition to all these passengers, there were nearly 200 seamen on the ship.

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British battleship HMS Marlborough illuminated by searchlight at night, WWI

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Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich on the HMS Marlborough, 1919.

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A parade in front of the Duke of Wellington and Marlborough, decommissioned Royal Navy ships, rededicated as training ships, on the Thames, in East London, England, in the 1890, I’m not sure if the older photo was once this ship but it would have looked like that in its hay day.

First shot is actually showing the accommodation ships alongside Fountain Lake jetty in Portsmouth dockyard, the second is the Duke of Wellington in Portsmouth harbour where she was moored close to HMS Victory.

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PR6 PREDICTIONS - Royal Navy

Here goes nothing I guess.

Do not treat any of the following choics as guaranteed. I would not bet money on any of these specific ones getting added as part of PR6 this year, it's just the ships I see as Very LikelyTM.

HMS Duncan

No, I don't think she's likely to be added to PR6 simply because I have an OC based on her, but it would be very cool.

Duncan is a battlecruiser. She's not terribly fast, but has access to an engine boost. She has 9 419mm guns in 3 triple turrets, as well as 2 front-facing torpedo tubes mounted on her hull.

HMS Minotaur

Because it would be funny.

She's a light, and I mean light cruiser - staring at her with bad intentions can already sink her. However, she has access to hydroacoustic search and a smokescreen (or radar if you have the required balls), and is an AP spammer. Her 5 dual 152mm turrets reload every 4,7 seconds.

HMS Malta

The chances of getting Malta are slim, now that we have Implacable (who, by all means, should be weaker); but I just love her. She's the scourge of any light cruiser or ship with a relatively weaker deck armor, as her AP carpet bombers are ludicrous. Her torpedoes are imho meh, but can still do a lot of damage and are likely to flood. And her attack aircraft are good, I just suck at using them - but that's on me.

HMS Marlborough

The pipe dream.

I wish Manjuu did to Marlborough what they did to Friedrich der Grosse. FdG is a mediocre-to-bad ship in WoWs (secondary guns are fun, yes, but bad. And Pommern is all around better), but in Azur Lane she's still one of the strongest battleships, if not outright the strongest (idk, don't crucify me for this).

Marlborough sucks in WoWs. She has terrible armor and puny tiny little 356mm guns. She can face against monsters like the Yamato (460mm), the Georgia/Ohio (457mm), Sovetsky Soyuz/Iowa (406mm), etc. Even Pommern, a battleship with weak caliber for her tier, has 380mm. However, she has standard British HE battleship shells, and can fire 16 of them at once, so she can burn things. And that's it.

HMS Hampshire

She's certainly one of the cruisers of all time.

From what I've heard, Hampshire isn't very remarkable in WoWs. She's a weird heavy cruiser, with a turret layout that feels illegal who can only shoot AP.

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25 nonfiction in 2025

25 NONFICTION books I want to take off of my TBR this year (to be checked against reality at the end of December)

Bess of Hardwick First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S. Lovell

The Russian Court at Sea: The Voyage of HMS Marlborough by Frances Welch

The Last Kaiser by Giles MacDonogh

The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

If This Is a Woman by Sarah Helm

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives

A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards by Peter Ross

Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge

Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry

Epitaph by Piotr M.A. Cywiński

Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs by Greg King and Penny Wilson

A Gift of Joy and Hope by Pope Francis

Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yeh Man

Goddesses with a Thousand Faces by Jasmine Elmer

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman G. Finkelstein

Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff

Educated by Tara Westover

Hiroshima John Hersey

Health, Hedonism and Hypochondria: The Hidden History of Spas by Ian Bradley

Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn

84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff

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Events 2.16

1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse. 1630 – Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil. 1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the first English Civil War. 1699 – First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania. 1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister. 1796 – Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) falls to the British, completing their invasion of Ceylon. 1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia. 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War. 1881 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1). 1899 – Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded. 1900 – The Southern Cross expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink achieved a new Farthest South of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at the Great Ice Barrier. 1918 – The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state. 1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. 1930 – The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA. 1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund. 1936 – The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election. 1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon. 1940 – World War II: Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. A total of 299 British prisoners are freed. 1942 – World War II: In Athens, the Greek People's Liberation Army is established 1942 – World War II: Attack on Aruba, first World War II German shots fired on a land based object in the Americas. 1943 – World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city. 1945 – World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines. 1945 – The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, was signed into law. 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1. 1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. 1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched. 1962 – The Great Sheffield Gale impacts the United Kingdom, killing nine people; the city of Sheffield is devastated, with 150,000 homes damaged. 1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people. 1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. 1968 – Civil Air Transport Flight 010 crashes near Shongshan Airport in Taiwan, killing 21 of the 63 people on board and one more on the ground. 1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75. 1985 – Hezbollah is founded. 1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. 1986 – China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard. 1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. 1996 – A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people. 1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground. 2000 – Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard. 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia. 2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs. 2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. 2013 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others. 2021 – Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the two year anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.

[ltwilliammowett]

HMS Marlborough at Gibraltar (with French Steamer Frigates and other Merchant Vessels), by Charles Henry Seaforth Circa 1855

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USS NEW YORK (BB-34), another US battleship and HMS Marlborough in Scapa Flow, Scotland during WWI.

Note: NEW YORK is painted in an experimental Camouflage Measure.

Date: December 1917-summer 1918.

Imperial War Museum: IMW Q 23351

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 45142

Library of Congress: Lot 9609-32

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Daguerreotype view of the launch of the first-rate 131-gun HMS Marlborough in Portsmouth, England, July 31, 1855. By British photographer Thomas Richard Williams.

Source: Rijksmuseum.

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Two former RN ships-of-the-line converted into training barracks, HMS Duke of Wellington and HMS Marlborough, circa 1895

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Empress Maria Feodorovna board the HMS Marlborough, 1919.

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Sunset over a British North Sea patrol, April 1915.

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STOCK IMAGE - HM QUEEN ELIZABETH II Attending a Garden Party at Marlborough House to celebrate South Africa's return to the Commonwealth. COMPULSORY CREDIT: UPPA/Photoshot Photo UIW 0008065-36 20.07.1994 by www.DIOMEDIA.com