HMS Hyperion (H97)

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HMS Hyperion (H97) was an H-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, named after the Greek mythological character Hyperion.

She was laid down by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited at Wallsend-on-Tyne on 26 March 1935, launched on 8 April 1936 and commissioned on 3 December 1936. In World War II, Hyperion participated in the Battle of Calabria and the Battle of Cape Spada on 19 July 1940 and sunk the Italian submarine Naiade on 14 December 1940 near Bardia.

Hyperion struck a mine as she escorted the battleship Malaya from Alexandria to Gibraltar and sank off Pantelleria east of Cape Bon in the Strait of Sicily on 22 December 1940.

[edit] See also

• List of shipwrecks in 1940

v • d • e G and H class destroyers Royal Navy G class Gallant  • Garland  • Gipsy  • Glowworm  • Grafton  • Grenade  • Grenville  • Greyhound  • Griffin H class Hardy  • Hasty  • Havock  • Hereward  • Hero (later Chaudiere)  • Hostile  • Hotspur  • Hunter  • Hyperion Havant class Harvester  • Havant  • Havelock  • Hesperus  • Highlander  • Hurricane Royal Hellenic Navy V. Georgios class Vasilefs Georgios  • Vasilissa Olga List of destroyers of the Royal Navy List of decommissioned ships of the Hellenic Navy