Edward Mack DSO, DSC, RN
| Born | 14 May 1909 |
| Ranks
Retired: 1 Jun 1957 Decorations
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Warship Commands listed for Edward Mack, RN
| Ship | Rank | Type | From | To |
| HMS Valorous (L 00) | Lt. | Destroyer | 22 Aug 1939 | 9 Jan 1942 |
| HMS Eclipse (H 08) | Lt.Cdr. | Destroyer | 10 Jan 1942 | 24 Oct 1943 |
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Events related to this officer
Destroyer HMS Valorous (L 00)
31 Jan 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Valorous (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, RN) is docked in the floating dock (AFD 3) at the Rosyth Dockyard. (1)
8 Feb 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Valorous (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, RN) is undocked. (1)
16 Oct 1940
HMS Valorous (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, RN) is docked in No.3 graving dock at the Rosyth Dockyard.
HMS Zulu (Cdr. J.S. Crawford, DSO, RN) is already in this dock since 12 October. (1)
11 Nov 1940 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Zulu (Cdr. J.S. Crawford, DSO, RN) and HMS Valorous (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, RN) are undocked. (1)
Destroyer HMS Eclipse (H 08)
27 Apr 1942 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Eclipse (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, DSC, RN) is docked at the Devonport Dockyard. (2)
8 Apr 1943 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Eclipse (Lt.Cdr. E. Mack, DSO, DSC, RN) picks up 16 survivors from the Dutch merchant Blitar that was torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat U-632 about 520 miles east of Cape Farewell on 6 April.
22 Aug 1943
The German torpedo boat TA 12 (970 tons, former French Baliste) is heavily damaged by the British destroyer HMS Eclipse (Cdr. E. Mack, DSO, DSC, RN). The TA 12 is beached off Cape Prasonesi, Rhodes, Greece and finally destroyed on 24 November by US Bombers.
23 Sep 1943
On this day HMS Eclipse (Cdr. E. Mack, DSO, DSC, RN) damaged the German torpedo boat TA 10 (Oberleutnant Jobst Hahndorff) (former French torpedo boat La Pomone and later Italian FR 42) and sank the merchant Gaetano Donizetti, carrying Italian POWs, south west of Rhodes. The Gaetano Donizetti went down with her entire crew and at least 1.576 Italian POWs. (Italian sources speak of 1.835 POWs on board the Gaetano Donizetti) The POW's were mostly sailors and airmen from the Garrison of Rhodes.
The heavily damaged TA 10 is towed back to Rhodes but is scuttled a few days later. (3)
Sources
- Rosyth Dockyard docking register
- ADM 53/115503
- Personal communication
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.
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