HMS Mahratta was lost 63 years ago today, 25-2-1944

Mahratta · 25-02-2007, 07:51 AM

Please lets remember the crew of HMS Mahratta.
This destroyer was sunk 63 years ago to this day, 25-2-1944.
They were doing there jobs for this country, when the ship was sunk while on escort duites in the Barrent Sea. Convoy JW-57.
Total loss of crew was 220 out of 236.

spidge · 25-02-2007, 10:51 AM

Those and many other mariners who died doing their duty.

Peter Clare · 25-02-2007, 11:09 AM

HMS MAHRATTA (February 25, 1944)
The 1,920 ton destroyer was torpedoed and sunk by an acoustic homing torpedo from the U-956 (or the U-950) in the Barents Sea while escorting the forty-three merchant ship convoy JW-57 to Russia. The convoy had set sail from Loch Ewe in Scotland on the 20th of February. Eleven officers and 209 ratings lost their lives. There were only seventeen survivors.

25-02-2007, 07:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
Mahratta Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 64	HMS Mahratta was lost 63 years ago today, 25-2-1944 Please lets remember the crew of HMS Mahratta. This destroyer was sunk 63 years ago to this day, 25-2-1944. They were doing there jobs for this country, when the ship was sunk while on escort duites in the Barrent Sea. Convoy JW-57. Total loss of crew was 220 out of 236.

25-02-2007, 10:51 AM	#2 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,054	Those and many other mariners who died doing their duty. __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

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25-02-2007, 11:09 AM	#3 (permalink)
Peter Clare Legendary Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Neverland Posts: 5,667	HMS MAHRATTA (February 25, 1944) The 1,920 ton destroyer was torpedoed and sunk by an acoustic homing torpedo from the U-956 (or the U-950) in the Barents Sea while escorting the forty-three merchant ship convoy JW-57 to Russia. The convoy had set sail from Loch Ewe in Scotland on the 20th of February. Eleven officers and 209 ratings lost their lives. There were only seventeen survivors.

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