HMS Martin (G44)
Martin
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Martin |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrong, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Laid down | 23 October 1939[1] |
Launched | 12 December 1940 |
Fate | Sunk by U-431, 10 November 1942 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | M-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 362 ft 3 in (110.4 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 37 ft (11.3 m) |
Draught | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
Sensors and processing systems | |
Armament |
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HMS Martin was an M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched at the Tyneside yard of Vickers-Armstrongs on 12 December 1940. She had a busy but brief wartime career, being sunk by the German submarine U-431 on 10 November 1942 off Algiers.
Service history
Convoy PQ 17
Martin was an escort for the
Convoy PQ18
Martin sailed from Scapa Flow on 4 September to join the escorts of convoy PQ 18. In the convoy she was part of Force "B", and joined the convoy with the cruiser
Loss
Martin was allocated to the escort group for Force "H" in Operation “Torch”, the landings in North Africa. She sailed from Scapa Flow on 30 October as part of the escort for Force "H", and after fuelling at Gibraltar on 5 November re-joined Force "H"- the covering force to the landings at Algiers and Oran, on 8 November. The task of Force "H" was to guard against action by the Italian fleet, during the landings. Martin was torpedoed by U-431 under command of Wilhelm Dommes on the morning of 10 November as a result of which she blew up and sank in position 37°53′N 003°57′E / 37.883°N 3.950°E.[1] The only survivors were five officers[2] and 59 ratings picked up by the destroyer Quentin.
Notes
- ^ a b "HMS Martin at UBoat.net". Retrieved 16 November 2009.
- ^ "Crew". HMS Martin-G44. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
References
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- English, John (2001). Afridi to Nizam: British Fleet Destroyers 1937–43. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-64-9.
- Friedman, Norman (2006). British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-86176-137-6.
- ISBN 1-55750-048-7.
- March, Edgar J. (1966). British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892–1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans. London: Seeley Service. OCLC 164893555.
- Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
External links
- Media related to HMS Martin (ship, 1940) at Wikimedia Commons
- HMS Martin website
- IWM Interview with survivor George Nye