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HMS Matchless (G 52)

Destroyer of the M class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassM 
PennantG 52 
Built byA. Stephen & Sons Ltd. (Glasgow, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down14 Sep, 1940 
Launched4 Sep, 1941 
Commissioned26 Feb, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold to the Turkish Navy in 1958 being renamed Kilicipasa.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. John Mowlam, RN
5 January 1942 – ca. late 1943
DSO awarded on 28 August 1942

Lt. William David Shaw, RN
Ca. late 1943 - 5 February 1944

Lt.Cdr. Eric Norman Walmsley, DSC and Bar, RN
5 February 1944 – ca. July / August 1944

HMS Matchless was refitting and was in Dockyard Control

Lt.Cdr. Sir Standish O'Grady Roche, DSO, RN
7 November 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

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