HMS Hostile
Service
- as HMS Hostile? — 23 August 1940357 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Hostile
- Pennant / hull number
- H55
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland
- Ordered
- 13 December 1934
- Laid down
- 27 February 1935
- Launched
- 24 January 1936
- Fate
- Damaged by a mine off Cape Bon 23 August 1940, scuttled by HMS Hero (H99) (1940)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,883 long tons (1,913 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 Hostile was a H-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H55. Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland laid her keel on 27 February 1935. She was launched on 24 January 1936.
Her class ran to 23 ships. The class followed the E and F-class destroyer and was succeeded by the I-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,350 long tons standard and 1,883 long tons at full load. 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 of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 34,000 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 357 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 23 August 1940, at 69°05′N 14°30′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, Parsons geared steam turbines
- Power
- 34000 shp
- 3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Armament
- 4 × single QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns
- 2 × Quadruple 0.5 in machine guns
- 2 × Quadruple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × Depth charges, 1 rack and 2 throwers
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 Hasty (H24)
- HMS Havock (H43)
- HMS Hereward (H93)
- HMS Hero (H99)
- HMS Hotspur (H01)
- HMS Hunter (H35)
- HMS Hyperion (H97)
- HNLMS O 8
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Hostile on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 13957 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons