HMS Marne was an M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy commissioned on 2 December 1941. She was built by Vickers-Armstrongs at High Walker Yard, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, and saw service in the Atlantic theatre of World War II.

Service history

Royal Navy

Marne was part of Convoy PQ 15 and along with HMS Martin (G44), helped to rescue 169 survivors from HMS Punjabi (F21) after she was sunk in a collision with the battleship HMS King George V (41). The destroyer depot ships HMS Hecla (1940) and HMS Vindictive (1918) with the escort ships HMS Venomous (D75) and Marne, were part of a convoy as part of Operation Torch west of Gibraltar. On 12 November 1942 the German submarine GS U-515 torpedoed and sunk Hecla, and minutes later fired two more torpedoes and badly damaged Marne, blowing off her stern. Michael Flanders, who was to become a famous actor and writer, was serving on board as part of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve

Turkish Navy

Following the Second World War Marne, along with three other ships of the same class, was transferred to the Turkish Navy as part of an agreement signed at Ankara on 16 August 1957. They underwent a refit which involved the removal of the after set of torpedo tubes and some secondary armament. They received a new deckhouse and Squid anti-submarine weapons system. On 29 June 1959 they were handed over at Portsmouth. Marne was renamed Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak, after Fevzi Çakmak (1876–1950), the Turkish Mareşal (Field Marshal) and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces. The ship remained in service with the Turkish Navy until 1970, when she was discarded and scrapped.