Navy The Royal Navy
Type Destroyer
Class M
Pennant G 44
Built by Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) : Parsons
Ordered
Laid down 23 Oct 1939
Launched 12 Dec 1940
Commissioned 4 Apr 1942
Lost 10 Nov 1942
Loss position 37.53N, 03.57E (See a map)
History
HMS Martin (Cdr. Charles Richard Powys Thomson, DSO, RN) was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-431 northeast of Algiers, Algeria in position 37º53'N, 03º57'E. 161 Officers and men went down with the ship. There 63 survivors.
Hit by U-boat
Sunk on 10 Nov 1942 by U-431 (Dommes).
