uboat.net

Allied Warships

HMS Hursley (L 84)

Escort destroyer of the Hunt (Type II) class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeEscort destroyer
ClassHunt (Type II) 
PennantL 84 
Built bySwan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend 
Ordered 
Laid down21 Dec, 1940 
Launched25 Jul, 1941 
Commissioned2 Apr, 1942 
End serviceDec, 1943 
Loss position
 
History

Transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy in December 1943 being renamed Kriti.
Returned to the Royal Navy 12 November 1959.
Scrapped in 1960.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. William John Patrick Church, DSC, RN
3 February 1942 – December 1943 

Career notesTo the Royal Hellenic Navy as Kriti

Noteable events involving Hursley include:

14 Jan, 1943
While detached from escorting convoy ME-15 off Malta HMS Hursley (Lt.Cdr. W.J.P. Church, DSC, RN) together with HMS Pakenham (Cdr. E.A. Gibbs, DSO and 2 Bars, RN) and a Beaufort of No.39 Squadron sank the Italian submarine Narvalo (Lt.Cdr. Ludovico Grion) (810 tons) south-east of Malta. Aboard the submarine, who is returning to Italy from a supply mission to North Africa, there are 11 English officers who are prisoners of war, 8 of them went down with the Narvalo along with 28 italians.

19 Feb, 1943
The German submarine U-562 was sunk in the Mediterranean north-east of Bengazi, in position 32º57'N, 20º54'E, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Isis (Lt.Cdr. D.R. Mitchell, RN), the British escort destroyer HMS Hursley (Lt.Cdr. W.J.P. Church, DSC, RN) and a British Wellington aircraft (Sqdn 38/S). (see map)


Return to the Allied Warships section