HMS Malcolm (D19)
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| Name: | HMS Malcolm |
| Laid down: | 27 March 1918 |
| Launched: | 29 May 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 14 December 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 July 1945 |
| Out of service: | 14 July 1945 |
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| Fate: | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 25 July 1945 |
| Badge: | On a field Red, a tower silver on a mount green. |
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| Class and type: | Admiralty-type (or Scott-class) destroyer leader |
| Displacement: | 1,530 tons |
| Length: | 332 ft 6 in (101.35 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 9 in (9.68 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft 4 in (3.45 m) |
| Speed: | 36.5 knots |
| Complement: | 164 to 183 |
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HMS Malcolm was one of eight Admiralty-type destroyer leaders (known as Scott-class destroyers) built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was the first of only two Royal Navy ships to carry the name Malcolm, although HMS Valkyrie was originally planned to bear the name. She was one of two Admiralty-type leaders to miss the First World War (the other being HMS Mackay) but saw service in, and survived, the Second War. Her pennant number was changed from D19 to I19 in May 1940. She was broken up in 1945.
In April 1916, an Admiralty type destroyer prototype (HMS Scott) was ordered in what would unofficially become known as the Scott class. Two more were ordered in December of that year, and in April 1917, Malcolm and four others were ordered. Cammell Laird built most of the class, including Malcolm.
Although two more were ordered in 1918, they were both cancelled and Malcolm became the last of the class to be completed. By the time she was launched, on 29 May 1919, the war she was built for was over and one of her class, Scott, has been sunk.
In the early 1920s, she served as part of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, and was later put into reserve as the flotilla leader of the reserve fleet.
In September 1939, Malcolm was deployed as leader of the 16th Destroyer Flotilla, based at Portsmouth and on antisubmarine patrol of the English Channel and Southwest Approaches. She stayed in this role until May 1940, when she was transferred to Dover Command to assist with the evacuation of the Netherlands.
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