HMS Hardy (H87)

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Hardy11 December 1936 — 10 April 1940222 days of the war

HMS Hardy (H87) Particulars

Name: HMS Hardy
Pennant / hull number: H87
Builder: Cammell Laird and Company at Birkenhead
Ordered: 12 December 1934
Laid down: 30 May 1935
Launched: 7 April 1936
Commissioned: 11 December 1936
Fate: Beached, 10 April 1940. Later capsized and became a total loss. (1940)
Status: Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,455 long tons (1,478 t)
Displacement, full load: 2,053 long tons (2,086 t)
Length: 102.72 m (337 ft)
Beam: 10.36 m (34 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: 175
Main gun: 120 mm (4.7 in)

HMS Hardy was a destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H87. Her keel was laid at Cammell Laird and Company at Birkenhead on 30 May 1935. She entered service on 11 December 1936, having been launched on 7 April 1936.

Displacement was 1,455 long tons standard and 2,053 long tons at full load. She measured 102.7 m (337 ft) long with a beam of 10.4 m (34 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 175. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.

Her machinery developed 38,000 shp through two shafts.

She was in commission for 222 days of the Second World War.

She was wrecked on 10 April 1940, at 68°24′N 17°12′E.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 shafts, Parsons geared steam turbines
3 Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers
Power: 38000 shp
Armament: 5 × 1 - QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns
2 × 4 - .50-inch machine guns
2 × 4 - 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Hardy (H87) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — Royal Navy official photograph — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons