Map of the wreck of HMS Mashona

Interview with a survivor of HMS Mashona, Bob Cowan.

Publication date January 1st 2016

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You can contact me on keithmartin2010@gmail.com with any information you have about the ship or crew.

I hope to have the book finished soon so please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Thanks again

Keith

May 2015

HMS Mashona

Local historian, Keith Martin, seeks information and photographs of the ship and crew of
HMS MASHONA

Did you or a family members serve on HMS MASHONA?
Do you or a family member have any photos of the officers and crew of HMS MASHONA?

In September 1939 she was serving with the sixth Destroyer Flotilla at Scapa Flow. She took part in operations resulting in the sinking of the Bismarck on 27 May 1941. She came under heavy air attack from the Luftwaffe while returning to port the following day, and was bombed and sunk off the coast of Galway with the loss of 48 men. 

I am a librarian in Ireland and I am researching the history of HMS Mashona, a Tribal Class Destroyer lost in 1941.Members of her crew are buried her in Ireland and there is great interest in the ship and her crew.If anyone has any information on the Mashona or pictures then please get in touch with me.The Mashona was bombed byGerman aircraft as she was returning from the Hunt for the Bismarck.Thanks

keithmartin2010@gmail.com