| Name: | HUNTER |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 26/03/1935 |
| Launched: | 25/02/1936 |
| Completed: | 30/09/1936 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1503 |
| Dimensions: | 1370disp - 1913disp, 312.0 x 33.0 x 10.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR geared, 34000shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 36.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins guns, 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; |
| 1 x depth charge rail, 2 x depth charge throwers | |
| History: | |
| 30/09/1936 | British Royal Navy |
| 10/04/1940 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the H Class of destroyers. Allocated pennant H35 |
| 13/05/1937: Damaged by mine south of Almeria, during Spanish Civil War | |
| 18/08/1937: Temporary repairs completed at Gibraltar | |
| 10/11/1938: Permanent repairs completed at Malta | |
| 10/04/1940: Sunk during the First Battle of Narvik when she was torpedoed | |
| by German destroyers and collided with HOTSPUR. HUNTER then capsized & sank |
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