Some H Class 1936 destroyer photos:
Flotilla Leader HMS Hardy
RN Destroyers: H Class 1936
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RN Destroyers: H Class 1936
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JEM, EM, OEM, LOEM, POOEL
Then 28 years in the Fire Brigade
Retired since 2002
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Re: RN Destroyers: H Class 1936
At the risk of getting shouted at , what were the basic differences between these , or was it purely numbers required please
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Re: RN Destroyers: H Class 1936
An original colour image of H Class Destroyer HMS Hesperus pictured at Hvalfjiord, Iceland in 1942..Built at John I Thornycroft & Co Shipyard at Southampton and originally built for the Brazilian Navy as Juruena in the late 1930s, but was purchased by the RN after the beginning of World War II in September 1939, commissioned in 1940 as HMS Hearty and then quickly renamed as Hesperus. She was damaged by German aircraft during the Norwegian Campaign in May 1940 and was assigned to convoy escort and Anti-Submarine Patrols after her repairs were completed. She was assigned to the Western Approaches Command for convoy escort duties in late 1940. She was briefly assigned to Force H in 1941, but her Anti-Aircraft armament was deemed too weak and she was transferred to the Newfoundland Escort Force the next month for escort duties in the North Atlantic. she was transferred to the Mid-Ocean Escort Force in late 1941 and continued to escort convoys in the North Atlantic for the next three years. She was converted to an Escort Destroyer in early 1943 after suffering damage from one of her two ramming attacks that sank two German Submarines. She sank two other Submarines during the war by more conventional means. After the end of the war, Hesperus escorted the ships carrying the Norwegian Government in exile back to Norway and served as a Target Ship through mid-1946. She was scrapped beginning in mid-1947.
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Re: RN Destroyers: H Class 1936
H Class Destroyer HMS Hesperus showing bow damage on her return to Liverpool on December 28th 1942, following a homeward-bound convoy escort, when she rammed and sank Type VIIIC Class U-Boat U-357.
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