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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | UK|naval}} | Ship name=HMS Mashona | Ship ordered=19 June 1936 | Ship namesake=Shona people | Ship builder=Vickers Armstrongs | Ship laid down=5 August 1936 | Ship launched=3 September 1937 | Ship christened= | Ship completed=30 March 1939 | Ship original cost=£341,108 | Ship in service= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship identification=Pennant number L59, later F59 | Ship fate=Sunk by aircraft, 28 May 1941 | Ship status= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=(as built) | Tribal|destroyer | 1936} | 1891|LT|t}} (standard)- {{convert|2519|LT|t}} (deep load)
| 377|ft|m|abbr=on}} (o/a) | 36|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | 11|ft|3|in|m|abbr=on}} | 44000|shp|kW|lk=in|abbr=on}}- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
| Ship propulsion=2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines | 36|kn|lk=in}} | 5700|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|15|kn}} | Ship sensors=ASDIC | Ship complement=190 | Ship armament=*4 × twin QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk XII guns- 1 × quadruple QF 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × quadruple QF .5-inch (12.7 mm) Mk III anti-aircraft machineguns
- 1 × quadruple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers
}} | HMS Mashona was a {{sclass2-|Tribal|destroyer (1936)|0}} destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service in the Second World War. She was built by Vickers Armstrong, with her machinery supplied by Parsons. She was authorised in the program year 1936. Mashona was laid down on 5 August 1936, launched on 3 September 1937[1] and completed by 30 March 1939. In September 1939 she was serving with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla at Scapa Flow. She took part in operations resulting in the sinking of {{ship|German battleship|Bismarck||2}} 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. The destroyer {{HMS|Tartar|F43|2}} took the survivors to Greenock. She was awarded the following battle honours: - Norway 1940
- "Bismarck" 1941
Notes1. ^The Times (London), Saturday, 4 September 1937, p.12
References - {{cite book|last=Brice|first=Martin H.|title=The Tribals|publisher=Ian Allan|date=1971|location=London|isbn=0-7110-0245-2}}
- {{cite book|last=English|first=John|title=Afridi to Nizam: British Fleet Destroyers 1937–43|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Gravesend, Kent|date=2001|isbn=0-905617-64-9}}
- {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Destroyers and Frigates, the Second World War and After|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=2006|isbn=1-86176-137-6}}
- {{cite book|last=Haarr|first=Geirr H.|title=The Battle for Norway: April–June 1940|year=2010|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=978-1-59114-051-1}}
- {{cite book|last=Haarr|first=Geirr H.|title=The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940|year=2009|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=978-1-59114-310-9}}
- {{cite book|last=Hodges|first=Peter|title=Tribal Class Destroyers|year=1971|publisher=Almark|location=London|isbn=0-85524-047-4}}
- {{cite book|last=Lenton|first=H. T.|title=British & Empire Warships of the Second World War|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=1998|isbn=1-55750-048-7}}
- {{cite book|last=Rohwer|first=Jürgen|title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=2005|edition=Third Revised|isbn=1-59114-119-2}}
- {{cite book|last=Whitley|first=M. J.|title=Destroyers of World War Two|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1988|isbn=0-87021-326-1|location=Annapolis, Maryland}}
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