HMS Hurricane
Brazilian H-class destroyer
Service
- as Japura? — 5 September 19394 days of the war
- as HMS Hurricane21 June 1940 — 25 December 19431,282 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Hurricane
- Pennant / hull number
- H06
- Builder
- Vickers Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
- Ordered
- 6 December 1937
- Laid down
- 3 June 1938
- Launched
- 29 September 1939
- Commissioned
- 21 June 1940
- Fate
- Scuttled after a torpedo hit, 25 December 1943 (1943)
- 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
- 152
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Hurricane was a Brazilian H-class destroyer, operated by the Brazilian Navy. She carried the pennant number H06. Vickers Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness laid her keel on 3 June 1938. She entered service on 21 June 1940, having been launched on 29 September 1939.
Displacement was 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 152. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
34,000 shp drove two shafts.
She served with the Brazilian Navy as Japura until 5 September 1939. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Hurricane from 21 June 1940. She was in commission for 1,286 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 25 December 1943, at 45°10′N 22°05′W. 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
- 3 Admiralty water-tube boilers
- Power
- 34000 shp
- Armament
- 3 × 1 – QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns
- 2 × 4 – 0.5 in machine guns
- 2 × 4 – 21 in torpedo tubes
- 110 × depth charges, 3 rails and 8 throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Hurricane on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22670 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons