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HMS Mahratta (G23)
HMS ''Mahratta'' was an M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy which served during World War II. Begun as ''Marksman'', she was damaged while under construction, and dismantled to be rebuilt on a new slipway. She was launched as ''Mahratta'' in 1942, completed in 1943, and quickly pressed into service. After a short but busy career in the North Atlantic and Arctic, largely guarding merchant convoys, she was torpedoed and sunk on 25 February 1944.
==History==
''Mahratta'' was originally to have been named ''Marksman''. She was laid down on 21 January 1940 but the incomplete ship was blown off the slipway during an air raid in May 1941.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HMS ''MAHRATTA'' – M-class Destroyer )〕 ''Marksman'' was to have been the lead ship of the M-class destroyers, and the class was sometimes known as the ''Marksman'' class. Damage sustained by ''Marksman'' was so bad that she had to be dismantled and transferred to an alternative site. The new ship was laid down on 18 August 1941, but she was renamed ''Mahratta'' at her launch in July 1942,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HMS ''Musketeer'': White Ensign Models 1:350 scale )〕 after the Maratha Empire of India, as a recognition of the financial support given by India to the war effort.〔 ''Mahratta'' was adopted by the people of Walsall, who held a "Warship Week" from 7–14 February 1942, aiming to raise £700,000 – the cost of a warship. She was completed on 8 April 1943 and entered service on that date. During trials in May 1943 HMS ''Mahratta'' escorted RMS ''Queen Mary'' part way across the Atlantic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Russian Convoy Club; The Arctic Lookout. )〕
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