HMS Martin (G44)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Martin.
HMS Martin was an M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched at the Tyneside yard of Vickers-Armstrongs on 12 December 1940. She had a busy but brief wartime career, being sunk by the German submarine U-431 on 10 November 1942 off Algiers.
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Name | HMS Martin |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrong, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Laid down | 23 October 1939[1] |
Launched | 12 December 1940 |
Fate | Sunk by U-431, 10 November 1942 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | M-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 362 ft 3 in (110.4 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 37 ft (11.3 m) |
Draught | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
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Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
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