HMS Hasty (H24)

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HMS Hasty
Career ( United Kingdom)
Laid down:	15 April 1935
Launched:	5 May 1936
Commissioned:	11 November 1936
Fate:	Torpedoed by the German motor torpedo boat S-55 on 14 June 1942, sunk near Crete by Hotspur on 15 June 1942.
General characteristics
Class and type:	H class destroyer
Displacement:	1,340 tons standard, 1980 tons deep load
Length:	323 ft (98 m)
Beam:	33 ft (10 m)
Draught:	12 ft 5 in (3.8 m) (13 ft 4 inch deep load)
Propulsion:	Parsons geared turbines, 2 shafts, 3 boilers, 34,000 hp (30 MW)
Speed:	36 knots (70 km/h)
Complement:	145 men
Armament:	Four 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns, eight 0.5 inch (13 mm) AA machine guns, eight 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 45 depth charges

HMS Hasty (H24) was an H-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by William Denny, Brothers and Company, Limited, of Dumbarton in Scotland on 15 April 1935, launched on 5 May 1936 and commissioned on 11 November 1936.

Hasty participated in the Battle of Calabria and the Battle of Cape Spada in July 1940, the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941, and the evacuation of Greece in April 1941, and attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-79 in the Mediterranean north of Sollum while in company with the destroyer Hotspur on 23 December 1941.

Hasty was torpedoed by the enemy German E-Boat S-55 as she escorted an Alexandria to Malta convoy and sank in the eastern Mediterranean south-west of Crete on 15 June 1942.

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