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There has been no "HMS Staffordshire".
There was a large passenger/cargo ship of the name which was owned by the Bibby Line of Liverpool.
She was used as a troopship from 1940 - I can find no incident involving her in March 1940 - according to convoy records she sailed Gibraltar 25 March in convoy HGF.24F arriving at Liverpool 3 April....
In May 1941 she was attacked by an aircraft and badly damaged - could this be the incident referred to?
see: http://www.red-duster.co.uk/BIBBY13.htm
- you will have to scroll down the page to get to Staffordshire, but it does give some details