HMS Hunter (H35)
Service
- as HMS Hunter? — 10 April 1940222 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Hunter
- Pennant / hull number
- H35
- Builder
- Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
- Ordered
- 13 December 1934
- Laid down
- 25 March 1935
- Launched
- 25 February 1936
- Fate
- Sunk in the First Battle of Narvik, 10 April 1940 (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 Hunter was a H-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H35. Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom laid her keel on 25 March 1935. She was launched on 25 February 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 four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 34,000 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 222 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 10 April 1940, at 68°25′N 17°10′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 AA MGs
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 rail 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 Hostile
- HMS Hotspur (H01)
- HMS Hyperion (H97)
- HNLMS O 8
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Hunter (H35) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//19/media-19237/large.jpg This photograph FL 10190 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons