HMS Mashona (F59)

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Mashona
Namesake: Shona people
Ordered: 19 June 1936
Builder: Vickers Armstrongs
Cost: £341,108
Laid down: 5 August 1936
Launched: 3 September 1937
Completed: 30 March 1939
Identification: Pennant number L59, later F59
Fate: Sunk by aircraft, 28 May 1941
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type: Tribal-class destroyer
Displacement:
Length: 377 ft (115 m) (o/a)
Beam: 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m)
Draught: 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range: 5,700 nmi (10,600 km; 6,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement: 190
Sensors and
processing systems:
ASDIC
Armament:

HMS Mashona was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service in the Second World War.

She was built by Vickers Armstrong, with her machinery supplied by Parsons. She was authorised in the program year 1936. Mashona was laid down on 5 August 1936, launched on 3 September 1937[1] and completed by 30 March 1939.

In September 1939 she was serving with the sixth Destroyer Flotilla at Scapa Flow. She took part in operations resulting in the sinking of the Bismarck on 27 May 1941. She came under heavy air attack from the Luftwaffe while returning to port the following day, and was bombed and sunk off the coast of Galway with the loss of 48 men. The destroyer Tartar took the survivors to Greenock.

She was awarded the following battle honours:

Notes

  1. The Times (London), Saturday, 4 September 1937, p.12

References

Coordinates: 52°58′N 11°36′W / 52.967°N 11.600°W / 52.967; -11.600


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