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Name: HYPERION
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 26/03/1935
Launched: 08/04/1936
Completed: 03/12/1936
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1505
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:
03/12/1936 British Royal Navy
22/12/1940 Sank
Comments: Member of the H Class of destroyers. Allocated pennant H97
22/12/1940: Damaged by mine off Pantelleria. Attempted tow failed.
Sunk by torpedo from JANUS in position 37.40N/11.31E


Above photo courtesy of Photoship

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Above photo courtesy of Photoship

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