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Destroyer of the Royal Navy
For other ships with the same name, see
HMS Marne
.
HMS
Marne
was an
M-class
destroyer
of the
Royal Navy
commissioned on 2 December 1941. She was built by
Vickers-Armstrongs
at High Walker Yard,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
, England, and saw service in the
Atlantic theatre
of
World War II
.
Service history
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Royal Navy
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Marne
was part of
Convoy PQ 15
and along with
Martin
, helped to rescue 169 survivors from
Punjabi
after she was sunk in a collision with the battleship
King George V
.
Marne
being towed into
Gibraltar
.
The destroyer depot ships
Hecla
and
Vindictive
with the escort ships
Venomous
and
Marne
, were part of a convoy as part of
Operation Torch
west of
Gibraltar
. On 12 November 1942 the German submarine
U-515
torpedoed and sunk
Hecla
, and minutes later fired two more torpedoes and badly damaged
Marne
, blowing off her stern.
Michael Flanders
, who was to become a famous actor and writer, was serving on board as part of the
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
Turkish Navy
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Following the Second World War
Marne
, along with three other ships of the same class, was transferred to the
Turkish
Navy as part of an agreement signed at Ankara on 16 August 1957. They underwent a refit which involved the removal of the after set of torpedo tubes and some secondary armament. They received a new deckhouse and
Squid anti-submarine
weapons system. On 29 June 1959 they were handed over at Portsmouth.
Marne
was renamed
Mare?al Fevzi Cakmak
, after
Fevzi Cakmak
(1876?1950), the Turkish
Mare?al
(
Field Marshal
) and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces.
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The ship remained in service with the
Turkish Navy
until 1970, when she was discarded and scrapped.
Notes
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Blackman, Raymond V B, Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-4, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, London, p248
References
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; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969].
Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy
(Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-86176-281-8
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- English, John (2001).
Afridi to Nizam: British Fleet Destroyers 1937?43
. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society.
ISBN
0-905617-64-9
.
- Friedman, Norman
(2006).
British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After
. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
ISBN
1-86176-137-6
.
- Lenton, H. T.
(1998).
British & Empire Warships of the Second World War
. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
ISBN
1-55750-048-7
.
- Lyon, Hugh & Chumbley, Stephen (1995). "Turkey". In Chumbley, Stephen (ed.).
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995
. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
ISBN
1-55750-132-7
.
- March, Edgar J. (1966).
British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892?1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans
. London: Seeley Service.
OCLC
164893555
.
- Rohwer, Jurgen
(2005).
Chronology of the War at Sea 1939?1945: The Naval History of World War Two
(Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
ISBN
1-59114-119-2
.
- Whitley, M. J.
(1988).
Destroyers of World War 2: An International Encyclopedia
. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
ISBN
0-87021-326-1
.
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