Name: | HEREWARD |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 28/02/1935 |
Launched: | 10/03/1936 |
Completed: | 21/10/1936 |
Builder: | Vickers-Armstrong Ltd |
Yard: | High Walker |
Yard Number: | 4 |
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: | |
21/10/1936 | British Royal Navy |
29/05/1941 | Sank |
Comments: | Member of the H Class of destroyers |
Allocated pennant H93 | |
29/05/1941: Bombed & sunk by German aircraft while evacuating Allied troops from Crete |
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Above photo courtesy of Kevin Blair