| Name: | HERO |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 28/02/1935 |
| Launched: | 10/03/1936 |
| Completed: | 09/10/1936 |
| Builder: | Vickers-Armstrong Ltd |
| Yard: | High Walker |
| Yard Number: | 3 |
| Dimensions: | 1340disp - 1860disp, 312.0 x 33.0 x 8.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR Geared, 34000shp |
| Engines by: | Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 35.5knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins guns; 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; |
| 2 x depth charge throwers | |
| History: | |
| 09/10/1936 | British Royal Navy |
| 15/11/1943 | Royal Canadian Navy; renamed CHAUDIERE |
| 1950 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the H Class of destroyers |
| Allocated pennant H99 | |
| 11/1943: Converted to an escort destroyer | |
| 1943: Y gun replaced by A/S mortar & extra depth charges | |
| 1950: Broken up by the Dominion Steel & Coal at Sydney, Nova Scotia |
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