HMS Hasty (H24)
Service
- as Hasty? — 14 June 19421,017 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Hasty
- Pennant / hull number
- H24
- Builder
- William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton
- Laid down
- 15 April 1935
- Launched
- 5 May 1936
- Fate
- Torpedoed by the German motor torpedo boat S-55 on 14 June 1942, scuttled the following day. (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft)
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,530 nmi (10,242 km)
- Complement
- 137
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Hasty was a H-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H24. Her keel was laid at William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton on 15 April 1935. She was launched on 5 May 1936.
Her class ran to 23 ships. The class followed the E and F-class destroyer and was succeeded by the I-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,350 long tons. She measured 98.5 m (323 ft) long with a beam of 10.1 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 137.
Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 34,000 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 1,017 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 14 June 1942, at 34°10′N 22°00′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; geared steam turbines
- Power
- 3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 34000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 2 × depth charge throwers, 1 rail and 20 depth charges
Sister ships
- German destroyer Hermes (ZG3)
- Greek destroyer Vasilefs Georgios
- Greek destroyer Vasilissa Olga
- HMCS Chaudière (H99)
- HMS H28
- HMS H31
- HMS H32
- HMS H33
- HMS H34
- HMS H43
- HMS H44
- HMS H49
- HMS H50
- HMS H6
- HMS Havock (H43)
- HMS Hereward (H93)
- HMS Hero (H99)
- HMS Hostile
- HMS Hotspur (H01)
- HMS Hunter (H35)
- HMS Hyperion (H97)
- HNLMS O 8
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Hasty (H24) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 13795 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons