HMS Hursley (L84)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 21 December 1940 |
| Launched: | 25 July 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 2 April 1942 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1960 |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,050 t standard; 1,610 t full load |
| Length: | 85.3 m (280 ft) o/a |
| Beam: | 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 2.36 m (7 ft 9 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 Admiralty 3 drum boilers, 2 shaft Parsons turbine, 19,000 shp |
| Speed: | 29 kt |
| Range: | 3,600 nm at 14 kt |
| Complement: | 146 |
| Armament: | 3 x twin 4 in Mk.XVI on mounting Mk.XIX 1 x quad 2 pdr "pom-pom" MK.VII 2 x single 20 mm Oerlikon AA 30 - 60 depth charges |
HMS Hursley (L84) was a Second World War type 2 Hunt class escort destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She is the only Royal Navy ship to have carried this name. Hursley is a village in Hampshire.
With HMS Pakenham she sank the Italian submarine Narvalo near Malta on 14 January 1943. The submarine was returning on a mission resupplying forces in North Africa and was carrying 11 British prisoners of war. 28 Italians and 8 of the prisoners died in the sinking.
The German U-boat U-562 was sunk by Hursley, HMS Isis and a Royal Air Force Vickers Wellington aircraft on 19 February 1943 in the Mediterranean northeast of Bengazi.
In December 1943 the frigate was loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy in December 1943, where she was renamed Kriti. She reverted to her original owners, and her original name, on 12 November 1959 and was scrapped the following year.
[edit] References
- HMS Hursley at uboat.net
- J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.
