HMS Mahratta at a buoy
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Mahratta (Ex-HMS Marksman) |
Builder | Scotts, Greenock |
Yard number | 584 |
Laid down | 18 August 1941 |
Launched | 28 July 1942 |
Commissioned | 8 April 1943 |
Honours and awards | Arctic (1943–44) |
Fate | Sunk by U-990, 25 February 1944 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | M-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
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 Mahratta was an M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy which served during World War II. Begun as Marksman, she was damaged while under construction, and dismantled to be rebuilt on a new slipway. She was launched as Mahratta in 1942, completed in 1943, and quickly pressed into service. After a short but busy career in the North Atlantic and Arctic, largely guarding merchant convoys, she was torpedoed and sunk on 25 February 1944.