HMS Malcolm (D19)

HMS Malcolm receiving the surrender of U-541 on 11 May 1945
History
United Kingdom
Name	Malcolm
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down	27 March 1918
Launched	29 May 1919
Commissioned	14 December 1919
Decommissioned	27 July 1945
Out of service	14 July 1945
Motto	In ardua Tendit (He strives in difficulties)
Honours and awards	North Sea (1940) Dunkirk (1940) Atlantic (1940–45) Arctic (1942) Malta Convoys (1942) North Africa (1942) English Channel (1943) Atlantic (1940–43) Biscay (1943)
Fate	Sold to be broken up for scrap on 25 July 1945
Badge	On a field Red, a tower silver on a mount green.
General characteristics
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 (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph)
Complement	164 to 183
Armament	2 × BL 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns 1 × 3-inch anti-aircraft gun 2 × 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns 1 × 1-pounder gun 2 × 20 mm anti-aircraft guns 3 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

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 World War. Her pennant number was changed from D19 to I19 in May 1940. She was broken up in 1945.