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Name: HEREWARD
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 28/02/1935
Launched: 10/03/1936
Completed: 21/10/1936
Builder: Vickers-Armstrong Ltd
Yard: High Walker
Yard Number: 4
Dimensions: 1340disp - 1860disp, 312.0 x 33.0 x 8.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, SR Geared, 34000shp
Engines by: Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 35.5knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 1 x 4.7ins, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins guns; 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes;
2 x depth charge throwers
History:
21/10/1936 British Royal Navy
29/05/1941 Sank
Comments: Member of the H Class of destroyers
Allocated pennant H93
29/05/1941: Bombed & sunk by German aircraft while evacuating Allied troops from Crete


Above photo courtesy of Photoship

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Above photo courtesy of Kevin Blair