HMS Mahratta (G23)

HMS Mahratta at a buoy
History
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	1,920 long tons (1,950 t) (standard) 2,725 long tons (2,769 t) (deep load)
Length	362 ft 3 in (110.4 m) (o/a)
Beam	37 ft (11.3 m)
Draught	14 ft (4.3 m)
Installed power	48,000 shp (36,000 kW) 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Propulsion	2 × shafts 2 × geared steam turbines
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	ASDIC Type 285 gunnery radar Type 290 air warning radar
Armament	3 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) Mk XI dual-purpose guns 1 × single QF 4 in (102 mm) Mk V anti-aircraft gun 1 × quadruple QF 2-pdr (40 mm) Mk VIII AA guns 2 × single Oerlikon 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns 2 × quadruple, 2 × twin 0.5 in (12.7 mm) Vickers Mark III anti-aircraft machineguns 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 42 × depth charges, 2 × racks, 2 × throwers

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.