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HMS Marne (G 35)

Destroyer of the M class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassM 
PennantG 35 
Built byVickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) : Parsons 
Ordered 
Laid down23 Oct, 1939 
Launched30 Oct, 1940 
Commissioned2 Dec, 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold to the Turkish Navy in 1958 being renamed Maresal Fevzi Cakmak.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Hugh Nicholas Aubyn Richardson, DSC, RN
< 2 December 1941 - ???
DSO awarded on ???
Lt.Cdr. Richardson is not listed in the Navy List as being in command of HMS Marne, despite this he was.

HMS Marne was in Dockyard Control during repairs

Lt.Cdr. Peter Alison Ross Withers, DSO, DSC, RN
9 August 1943 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Hit by U-boat
Damaged on 12 Nov, 1942 by U-515 (Henke).


Noteable events involving Marne include:

12 Nov, 1942
At 00.15 hours on 12 November 1942 the German submarine U-515 fired a spread of four torpedoes at the British destroyer tender HMS Hecla which was misidentified as a Birmingham class light cruiser and hit her in the engine room. Two torpedoes were surface-runners and the last also malfunctioned and was a circle-runner. The U-boat then hit the ship with three coups de grâce at 01.28, 01.49 and 02.06 hours, sinking the vessel. At 02.11 hours, U-515 fired two torpedoes and badly damaged the escorting HMS Marne (Lt.Cdr. H.N.A. Richardson, DSO, DSC, RN) (see map)


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