Royal Malaysian Navy

Royal Malaysian Navy Tentera Laut DiRaja Malaysia
Crest of the Royal Malaysian Navy
Founded	27 April 1934
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	2 submarine 2 frigate + (6 under construction) 6 corvette 10 offshore patrol vessels 8 missile boat 27 fast attack craft 4 minesweepers 2 amphibious warfare ship 2 auxiliary ship 2 hydrographic survey vessels 12 military helicopter
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
Naval Ensign
Naval Ensign (1963–1968)
Naval Ensign (1957–1963)

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.