HMS Marne (G35)
Service
- as HMS Marne2 December 1941 — 26 March 19591,370 days of the war
- as Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak29 June 1959 — 1970
- Name
- HMS Marne
- Pennant / hull number
- G35
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrong, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Laid down
- 23 October 1939
- Launched
- 30 October 1940
- Commissioned
- 2 December 1941
- Fate
- Discarded 1970 (1970)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,920 long tons (1,951 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,725 long tons (2,769 t)
- Length
- 110.34 m (362 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 190
- Main gun
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Marne was a M-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G35. Vickers-Armstrong, Newcastle upon Tyne laid her keel on 23 October 1939. Launched on 30 October 1940, she entered service on 2 December 1941.
Seven ships of the class were built. The class followed the None and was succeeded by the Quebec-class submarine.
Displacement was 1,920 long tons standard and 2,725 long tons at full load. She measured 110.3 m (362 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 190.
Her main battery was six 119 mm (4.7 in) guns in three twin mountings. Her machinery developed 48,000 shp.
She served with the Royal Navy as HMS Marne until 26 March 1959. She then passed to the Turkish Navy, serving as Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak from 29 June 1959. She was in commission for 1,370 days of the Second World War.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts
- 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 48000 shp
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Armament
- 3 × twin 4.7 in Mk XI dual-purpose guns
- 1 × single QF 4 in Mk V anti-aircraft gun
- 1 × quadruple QF 2-pdr (40 mm) Mk VIII AA guns
- 2 × single Oerlikon 20 mm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple, 2 × twin 0.5 in (12.7 mm) Vickers Mark III anti-aircraft machineguns
- 1 × quadruple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 42 × depth charges, 2 × racks, 2 × throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Marne (G35) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 7724 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons