====================+===============+============== Name. | Built at. | Machinery by. --------------------+---------------+-------------- _Iron Duke_ | Portsmouth Y. | Cammell-Laird _Benbow Beardmore_ | Beardmore | Beardmore _Emperor of India_ | Vickers | Vickers _Marlborough_ | Devonport Y. | Hawthorn ====================+===============+============== The _Emperor of India_ was originally named _Delhi_. The first two were given Babcock, and the second two Yarrow boilers. All were completed in 1914, but only the _Iron Duke_ was available for service on the eve of the outbreak of the war with Germany and Austria. The other three were, however, rapidly completed and put into commission. The fifth ship of the 1911–12 Estimates was the battle cruiser _Tiger_, nominally belonging to the _Lion_ group, but actually differing very considerably in various important details. She was laid down at Clydebank in June, 1912, a great deal of official reticence being maintained concerning her. She was not complete on the outbreak of war; but as she was available for service not long afterwards she is included in this survey. The marked and most characteristic difference between her and the _Lions_ is that the third turret instead of being cramped amidships as in the _Lion_ design, is moved further aft, thus giving a greatly improved arc of fire. Twelve 6-inch were substituted for the sixteen 4-inch of the _Lions_ for reasons already given. The _Tiger_ is approximately 720ft. long, with a nominal horse-power of 75,000. Babcock type boilers are fitted. Her nominal speed is 27 knots, but this has more than once been very considerably exceeded. For 1912–13 the Estimates provided for four capital ships, the usual twenty destroyers, and a new type of warship designated as “lightly armoured cruisers.” This programme is of abounding interest, not only on account of the fact that--so far as the larger types of ships are concerned--it probably embodies the last new construction available for the British Fleet in the war (unless the war endure beyond all anticipations) but also because of its more or less revolutionary nature. [Illustration: EARLY “30 KNOT” DESTROYERS.] The big ships of the programme were as follows:-- ==================+=================+============== Name. | Built at. | Machinery by. ------------------+-----------------+-------------- _Queen Elizabeth_ | Portsmouth Yard | Wallsend _Warspite_ | Devonport Yard | Hawthorn _Valiant_ | Clydebank | Fairfield _Barham_ | Fairfield | Fairfield _Malaya_ | Elswick | Wallsend ==================+=================+============== The fifth ship in this list, the _Malaya_, is an extra vessel paid for and presented to the British Navy by the Federated Malay States.