HMS Hesperus
Brazilian H-class destroyer
Service
- as Juruena? — 5 September 19394 days of the war
- as Hearty (briefly)22 January 1940 — 17 May 19472,050 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Hesperus
- Pennant / hull number
- H57
- Builder
- John I. Thornycroft & Company
- Ordered
- 6 December 1937
- Laid down
- 6 July 1938
- Launched
- 1 August 1939
- Commissioned
- 22 January 1940
- Fate
- Scrapped, 17 May 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
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
- 152
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Hesperus was a Brazilian H-class destroyer of the Brazilian Navy. She carried the pennant number H57. Her keel was laid at John I. Thornycroft & Company on 6 July 1938. Launched on 1 August 1939, she entered service on 22 January 1940.
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 152.
Her main battery was three 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 34,000 shp through two shafts.
She served with the Brazilian Navy as Juruena until 5 September 1939. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as Hearty (briefly) from 22 January 1940. She was in commission for 2,054 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 17 May 1947.
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; 2 geared steam turbines
- Power
- 3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 34000 shp
- Armament
- 3 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 2 × quadruple .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 3 × depth charge rails and 8 × throwers; 110 × depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Hesperus on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 7101 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons