Category Archives: Destroyers

British destroyer HMS Dragon replenishes from French auxiliary Jacques Chevallier during operations with the French carrier strike group in the Indian Ocean.

HMS Armada – Battle Class destroyer in 1943

HMS Armada Battle Class destroyer launched in 1943. Photo courtesy of George Ericson.

HMS Tyrian was a S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

Between 1946 and 1951 Tyrian was held in reserve at Harwich. Between 1951 and 1952 she was converted to a Type 16 fast anti-submarine frigate, by Harland & Wolff at Liverpool.[3] She was also allocated the new pennant number F67. From August 1952 until 1956 she was part of the 2nd Training Squadron at Portland.Continue reading “HMS Tyrian was a S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War.”

HMS HURSLEY – Hursley was a Second World War Type II 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. Commissioned in 1942, she served in the Mediterranean, before being transferred to the Hellenic Navy in November 1943 and renamed Kriti. She took part in the landings in Sicily, Anzio, and southern France, and remained inContinue reading “HMS HURSLEY – Hursley was a Second World War Type II Hunt-class escort destroyer of the British Royal Navy”

HMS MARTIN 1942, was an M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched at the Tyneside yard of Vickers-Armstrongs on 12 December 1940. She had a busy but brief wartime career, being sunk by the German submarine U-431 on 10 November 1942 off Algiers.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Martin_(G44)