HMS Mashona was one of 16 Tribal-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy shortly before the beginning of Second World War in 1939. Completed in that...

Mashona may refer to: Mashonaland, a region in northern Zimbabwe Mashona language, a Bantu language Mashona people, a Bantu ethnic group Mashona mole-rat...

by aircraft of the Luftwaffe, resulting in the loss of the destroyer HMS Mashona. Under the command of the Fleet Commander Günther Lütjens, the German...

HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...

HMS Kelly (pennant number F01) was a K-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, and flotilla leader of her class. She served through the early years...

and Bengore Head, but the escort vessels responded. The British corvette HMS Aubrietia located the U-boat with ASDIC (sonar). Aubrietia and British destroyer...

of the Denmark Strait, the battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the...

explode. HMS Cossack had her radio antenna sheared off by a shell. The Royal Navy did lose a destroyer later in the operations – HMS Mashona was sunk...

HMS York was the lead ship of her class of two heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. She mostly served on the North America and West...

HMS Greyhound was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. Greyhound participated in the Norwegian Campaign in April 1940, the Dunkirk...

HMS Salopian was a motor ship that was built in 1926 as the passenger ship Shropshire. She belonged to Bibby Line, which ran passenger and cargo services...

April a large force of warships, escorted by the battlecruiser HMS Renown and the cruiser HMS Birmingham, comprising elements of Operation Wilfred and Plan...

ship assisted in rescue operations for survivors from British destroyer HMS Mashona. During the summer, Sherwood underwent repairs in the Clyde, and then...

HMS Ladybird was an Insect-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, launched in 1916. This class are also referred to as "large China gunboats". Originally built...

HMS Juno was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, at Govan in Scotland on 5...

HMS Jersey was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. On 25 March 1937, the British Admiralty placed orders for the eight destroyers of the J class, including...

HMS Imperial was one of nine I-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. She was scuttled by HMS Hotspur in 1941 after she had been crippled...

HMS Fiji was the lead ship of her class of 11 light cruisers built for the Royal Navy shortly before the Second World War. Completed in mid-1940, she...

Greece requisitioned in World War II. On 9 June 1944, Royal Navy submarine HMS Vivid sank her off Heraklion, Crete, with Tanais sinking in just 12 seconds...

8 May 1941, Pinguin was sunk in a battle with the British heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall. She was the first auxiliary cruiser of the Kriegsmarine to be sunk...

exhaustion of their fuel supplies. Two Tribal-class destroyers, HMS Mashona and HMS Tartar, were located by German long-range bombers soon after Bismarck...

Fleet HMS Somali 1939 11th Destroyer Division HMS Matabele, HMS Ashanti, HMS Mashona, HMS Somali(F) 1939 12th Destroyer Division HMS Punjabi, HMS Tarter...

HMS Hereward, named after Hereward the Wake, was an H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. She was assigned to the Mediterranean...

HMS Hurricane was an H-class destroyer that had originally been ordered by the Brazilian Navy in the late 1930s with the name Japura, but was bought by...

aircraft HMS Mashona (F59) Atlantic Ocean 28 May 1941 Sunk by German aircraft HMS Matabele (F26) North Atlantic Ocean 17 January 1942 Sunk by U-454 HMS Mohawk...

HMS Gloucester was one of the second batch of three Town-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the late 1930s. Commissioned shortly before...

intervene before she sank. The Geschwader sank the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Mashona on 28 May 1941, as the British forces withdrew to port. I and III./KG...

to lifeboats, and rafts before being rescued. HMS Hurricane provided anti-submarine support while HMS Veteran focused on rescuing the Nerissa survivors...

The vessel became a troop ship in the 1930s and was sunk by the submarine HMS Upholder in 1941. She was named after Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy, the so-called...

HMS King George V (pennant number 41) was the lead ship of the five British King George V-class battleships of the Royal Navy. Laid down in 1937 and commissioned...