RN Destroyers: H Class 1936

[jbryce1437]

Some H Class 1936 destroyer photos:

hms hasty undated.jpg

HMS Havelock WWII 1941-42.jpg

hms havock at malta dated 2721937.jpg

hms hereward, off portsmouth aug 1939.jpg

hms hero built by vickers-armstrongs high walker completed 9121936.jpg

HMS_Hesperus_WWII_IWM_A_7101.jpg

hms highlander,during ww2,dated 3151942.jpg

hms hostile,seen recently completed,dated 101936.jpg

hms hotspur,during ww2.jpg

hms hunter,at devonport,undated.jpg

HMS Hurricane.jpg

hms hyperion,seen at malta,dated 61937.jpg

Flotilla Leader HMS Hardy

hms hardy,at malta,dated 61937.jpg

[ivorthediver]

At the risk of getting shouted at , what were the basic differences between these , or was it purely numbers required please

[Brian James]

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.

[Brian James]

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.