Edward Mack DSO, DSC, RN
| Birth details unknown |
| Ranks
Retired: 1 Jun 1957 Decorations
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Warship Commands listed for Edward Mack, RN
| Ship | Rank | Type | From | To |
| HMS Valorous (L 00) | Lt. | Destroyer | 22 Aug 1939 | 9 Jan 1942 |
| HMS Eclipse (H 08) | Lt.Cdr. | Destroyer | 10 Jan 1942 | 24 Oct 1943 |
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Events related to this officer
Destroyer HMS Eclipse (H 08)
23 Jul 1943
The Italian submarine Ascianghi (offsite link) was sunk off Augusta, Sicily by the British destroyers HMS Eclipse (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, DSO, DSC, RN) and HMS Laforey (Capt. R.M.J. Hutton, DSO, RN).
22 Aug 1943
The German torpedo boat TA 12 (970 tons, former French Baliste) is heavily damaged by the British destroyer HMS Eclipse (Cdr. E. Mack, DSO, DSC, RN). The TA 12 is beached off Cape Prasonesi, Rhodos, Greece and finally destoyed on 24 November by US Bombers.
23 Sep 1943
On this day HMS Eclipse (Cdr. E. Mack, DSO, DSC, RN) damaged the the German torpedo boat TA 10 (Oberleutnant Jobst Hahndorff) (former French torpedo boat La Pomone and later Italian FR 42) and sank the merchant Gaetano Donizetti, carrying Italian POWs, south west of Rhodes. The Gaetano Donizetti went down with her entire crew and at least 1.576 Italian POWs. (Italian sources speak of 1.835 POWs on board the Gaetano Donizetti) The POW's were mostly sailors and airmen from the Garrison of Rhodes.
The heavily damaged TA 10 is towed back to Rhodes but is scuttled a few days later.