HMS Mashona
Service
- as Mashona? — 28 May 1941635 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Mashona
- Pennant / hull number
- L59
- Namesake
- Shona people
- Builder
- Vickers Armstrongs
- Ordered
- 19 June 1936
- Laid down
- 5 August 1936
- Launched
- 3 September 1937
- Fate
- Sunk by aircraft, 28 May 1941
By aircraft (1941) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,891 long tons (1,921 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,519 long tons (2,559 t)
- Length
- 114.91 m (377 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,700 nmi (10,556 km)
- Complement
- 190
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Mashona was a Tribal-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L59. She was named for Shona people. Vickers Armstrongs laid her keel on 5 August 1936. She was launched on 3 September 1937.
24 ships of the class were built. The class followed the I-class destroyer and was succeeded by the J class.
She displaced 1,891 long tons standard and 2,519 long tons at full load. She measured 114.9 m (377 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 190.
Her main battery was eight 119 mm (4.7 in) guns in four twin mountings. Her machinery developed 44,000 shp.
She was in commission for 635 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 28 May 1941 by aircraft, at 52°58′N 11°36′W. The wreck survives.
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
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 44000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 1 × quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) anti-aircraft machineguns
- 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers
Sister ships
- HMAS Arunta (I30)
- HMAS Bataan
- HMAS Warramunga (I44)
- HMCS Athabaskan (G07)
- HMCS Haida
- HMCS Huron (G24)
- HMCS Iroquois (G89)
- HMCS Nootka (R96)
- HMS Afridi (F07)
- HMS Ashanti (F51)
- HMS Bedouin
- HMS Cossack (F03)
- HMS Eskimo (F75)
- HMS Gurkha (F20)
- HMS Maori (F24)
- HMS Matabele
- HMS Mohawk (F31)
- HMS Nubian (F36)
- HMS Punjabi
- HMS Sikh (F82)
- HMS Somali
- HMS Tartar (F43)
- HMS Zulu (F18)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Mashona on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 1659 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29 [1] ) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons