HMS Hyperion (H97)

H-class destroyer

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Hyperion? — 22 December 1940478 days of the war

H-class destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Hyperion
Pennant / hull number: H97
Builder: Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear
Laid down: 27 March 1935
Launched: 8 April 1936
Fate: Mined 22 December 1940
By mine (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 Hyperion was a H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H97. Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear laid her keel on 27 March 1935. She was launched on 8 April 1936.

23 ships of the class were built. The class followed the E and F-class destroyer and was succeeded by the I-class destroyer.

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 137. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.

34,000 shp drove two shafts.

She was in commission for 478 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 22 December 1940 by mine, at 37°40′N 11°31′E. The wreck survives.

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: 34000 shp
Armament: 4 × 1 - QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns
2 × 4 - .50 cal machine guns
2 × 4 - 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Hyperion (H97) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
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