The HMT Marilyn, formerly RMS Marilyn, was launched in 1909 and served as a passenger ship until she was requisitioned by the British Admiralty in 1914.
Initially, she served as an armed merchant cruiser for the Royal Navy until the following year, when she was converted into a troopship due to negative experiences with armed merchant cruisers.
She received the identification number 1092 and was painted Dazzle in 1917.
She left Plymouth with three freighters at about 4 a.m. on August 4th, 1917, to take tank crews and spare parts such as tank tracks and gun barrels to Cherbourg. A while later she left the convoy due to her higher speed and continued on her own towards Cherbourg. At 7:48 a.m., above the Channel Islands of Alderney, 24.3 nautical miles from her destination, she was hit by a torpedo from a German U-boat.
The torpedo destroyed the bulkhead between the forward coal bunker and the boiler room, as well as the bulkhead of the adjacent cargo hold.
In order to get out of the field of fire of the submarine, the captain gave full steam and had the ship steered hard to starboard. Due to the unclear damage situation, the captain tried to get to Alderney as quickly as possible in order to bring the Marilyn and the Soldiers to safety.
However, as the water was able to get into three compartments, the ship tilted to port.
When the water was high enough, a boiler under full steam exploded and tore a hole in the hull and deck above.
Within 4 minutes, the Marilyn capsized and sank at just before 8 o'clock.
Since most of the people on board were below deck, 243 of the 524 people died in the accident.

Then Finally in 1936, the wreck was raised and scrapped.


Technical Data

Land: United Kingdom
Year of construction: 5 December 1906
Year of launch: 12 March 1909
Commissioned: 9 August 1909
Fate: Sunk 4. August 1917 by a German Submarine
Length: 155,52m (510,2ft)
Beam: 15,64m (51,3ftft)
Draught: 7,5m (24,6ft)
Height: 40,95m (134,3ft) (waterline to top of mast)
Boiler: 8x dubbleend Scotchboiler
Engines: 2x 4 cylinder four-expansion Reciprocating engines
Speed: cruise: 17kn (30,6km/h 19mph)
   max: 19kn (35km/h 21,7mph)
Armament: 4 x 4,7"/45 QF Mark V
6 x 12pdr QF Mark I
6 x Maxim Gun
Capacity:4262 Soldiers
Crew:  87


Build by: Horus

Renders by: Axandres274, Horus

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