HMS Mahratta was an M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy which served during World War II.

After a short but busy career in the North Atlantic and Arctic, largely guarding merchant convoys, she was torpedoed and sunk on 25 February 1944.

During trials in May 1943 HMS Mahratta escorted RMS Queen Mary part way across the Atlantic.

[4] On 4 June Mahratta left Seidisfjord, Iceland bound for Spitzbergen, Norway as part of Operation FH, which was the relief of the garrison there.

[3] Operation Camera was a war game off the coast of Iceland to test the defences against an attempt by Tirpitz to break out from Kåfjord.

[4] Operation Governor was an attempt to lure Tirpitz and other heavy battleships out of harbour by simulating a raid on southern Norway.

Operation Lorry enabled the passage of destroyers and stores to Kola in northern Russia.

The chain later broke, and after this Mahratta rescued some survivors from a Coastal Command Halifax aircraft that had been shot down by a German U-boat.

Mahratta arrived in Plymouth on 11 October 1943 and later that month sailed north again to Scapa Flow and Seidisfjord to escort Convoy JW 54A[3] as part of Operation FR.

[4] Convoy RA 54A, including the aircraft carrier Formidable and the battleship Anson,[5] sailed from Kola Inlet on 1 November 1943.

[4] Convoy JW 56B departed Loch Ewe on 22 January 1944[8] and arrived at Kola Inlet on 1 February.

Wildcats were flown from HMS Chaser and it was thought that they had driven the Condor away, but it kept watch at a distance.