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Malaysian Navy

Royal Malaysian Navy
Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia
Crest of the Royal Malaysian Navy.svg
Crest of the Royal Malaysian Navy
Founded 27 April 1934; 83 years ago (1934-04-27)
Country  Malaysia
Allegiance Supreme Head of Malaysia
Branch Malaysian Armed Forces
Type Navy
Role Maritime security
Size

15,000 active personnel (2003)
Garrison/HQ Lumut, Perak
Nickname(s) TLDM
Motto(s) "Sedia Berkorban" (Ready to Sacrifice)
March "Samudera Raya" (Great Ocean)
Anniversaries 27 April
Fleet
Engagements World War II
Malayan Emergency
Sarawak Communist Insurgency
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–89)
UNIMOG
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
2006 East Timorese Crisis (OA)
UNIFIL
War on Terrorism
(Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa, Operation Dawn 8: Gulf of Aden)
Cross border attacks in Sabah (2013 standoff)
MT Orkim Harmony hijacking
Website www.navy.mil.my
Commanders
Captain-in-Chief Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah of Selangor
Chief of Navy Admiral Ahmad Kamarulzaman Ahmad Badaruddin
Insignia
Commissioning Pennant Commissioning Pennant of Malaysia.svg
Naval Ensign Naval Ensign of Malaysia.svg
Naval Ensign (1963–1968) Naval Ensign of Malaysia (1963-1968).svg
Naval Ensign (1957–1963) Naval Ensign of Malaya (1957-1963).svg

The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) (Malay: Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia; TLDM) is the naval arm of the Malaysian Armed Forces.

The Royal Malaysian Navy can trace its roots to the formation of the Straits Settlement Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (SSRNVR) in Singapore on 27 April 1934 by the British colonial government in Singapore. The SSRNVR was formed to assist the Royal Navy in the defence of Singapore, upon which the defence of the Malay Peninsula was based. Also behind its formation were political developments in Asia, particularly a Japan that was increasingly assertive in Asia. In 1938, the SSRNVR was expanded with a branch in Penang. On 18 January 1935, the British Admiralty presented Singapore with an Acacia class sloop, HMS Laburnum, to serve as the Reserve's Headquarters and drill ship. It was berthed at the Telok Ayer Basin. HMS Laburnum was sunk in February 1942, prior to the capitulation of Singapore at the beginning of the Pacific Second World War.

With the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe, the SSRNVR increased the recruitment of mainly indigenous personnel into the force, to beef up local defences as Royal Navy resources were required in Europe. Members of the SSRNVR were called up to active duty, and the force was augmented by members of the Royal Navy Malay Section. This formed the basis of the navy in Malaya, called the Malay Navy, manned by indigenous Malay personnel (similarly, the Malays were recruited into the fledgling Malay Regiment formed in 1936). The Malay Navy had a strength of 400 men who received their training at HMS Pelandok, the Royal Navy training establishment in Malaya. Recruitment was increased and in 1941 at the outbreak of the war in Asia, the Malay Navy had a strength of 1,450 men. Throughout the Second World War, the Malay Navy served with the Allied Forces in the Indian and Pacific theatre of operations. When the war ended with the Japanese Surrender in 1945, only 600 personnel of the Malay Navy reported for muster. Post war economic constraints saw the disbandment of the Malay Navy in 1947.


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