HMS Marne (G35)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Marne.

Marne in May 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Marne
Builder	Vickers-Armstrong, Newcastle upon Tyne
Laid down	23 October 1939
Launched	30 October 1940
Commissioned	2 December 1941
Fate	Sold to the Turkish Navy on 26 March 1959, renamed Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak
History
Turkey
Name	Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak
Namesake	Fevzi Çakmak
Acquired	26 March 1959
Fate	Discarded 1970
General characteristics
Class and type	M-class destroyer
Displacement	1,920 tons standard
Length	362 ft (110 m)
Beam	36 ft (11 m)
Draught	14 ft 10 in (4.52 m)
Propulsion	3 x Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 48,000 shp on two shafts
Speed	36 kn (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	221
Armament	Six 4.7-inch (119 mm) guns (3x2), 1 four barreled pom-pom (40 mm), Eight 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2x4)

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

Royal Navy

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 destroyers 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 the famous actor and writer, was serving on board as part of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve.

Turkish Navy

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 Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak, after Fevzi Çakmak (1876–1950), the Turkish Mareşal (Field Marshal) and Prime Minister.

The ship remained in service with the Turkish Navy until 1970, when she was discarded and scrapped.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; 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.
• 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.
• Rohwer, Jürgen (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. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.

External links

• Roll of honour
• Allied Warships: HMS Marne (G35)
• L+M Class