HMS Hardy (R08)

Hardy in August 1943
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Hardy
Ordered:	1 September 1941
Builder:	John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland
Laid down:	14 May 1942
Launched:	18 March 1943
Commissioned:	August 1943
Identification:	Pennant number:R08
Honours and awards:	Arctic 1943-44
Fate:	Scuttled after being torpedoed on 30 January 1944
Badge:	.
General characteristics
Class and type:	V-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,777 long tons (1,806 t) standard 2,058 long tons (2,091 t) full load
Length:	363 ft (111 m)
Beam:	35 ft 8 in (10.87 m)
Draught:	10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion:	2 × Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers Geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp (29,828 kW) 2 shafts
Speed:	37 knots (43 mph; 69 km/h)
Range:	4,860 nmi (9,000 km) at 29 kn (54 km/h)
Complement:	180 (225 in flotilla leader)
Armament:	Original configuration : 4 × QF 4.7-inch (120-mm) Mk IX guns in single mountings CP Mk.XXII 2 × QF 40 mm Bofors guns in twin mount Mk.IV 6 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns; 2 × twin mounts Mk.V, 2 × single mounts Mk.III 2 × quadruple tubes for 21-inch (530 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX

HMS Hardy was a V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank, laid down on 14 May 1942, launched 18 March 1943, and completed 14 August 1943.

While escorting Convoy JW 56A during World War II, Hardy was torpedoed and damaged in the Arctic Ocean at 73°40′N 24°30′E / 73.667°N 24.500°E / 73.667; 24.500 by the German submarine U-278 on 30 January 1944 with the loss of 35 crew members. The British destroyer HMS Venus rescued her survivors and sank her.^[1]

Notes

References

• Raven, Alan; Roberts, John (1978). War Built Destroyers O to Z Classes. London: Bivouac Books. ISBN 0-85680-010-4. 
• Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1. 

See also

• Arctic convoys of World War II

External links

• Hardy at naval-history.net
• Hardy at uboatnet

U- and V-class destroyers
Royal Navy	U class Grenville [leader] Ulster Ulysses Undaunted Undine Urania Urchin Ursa V class Hardy [leader] Kempenfelt / Valentine Venus Verulam Vigilant Virago Vixen Volage
Royal Canadian Navy	V class Algonquin (ex-Valentine) Sioux (ex-Vixen)
Preceded by: T class Followed by: W class
List of destroyers of the Royal Navy

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in January 1944
Shipwrecks	3 Jan: USS Turner 6 Jan: USS St. Augustine 8 Jan: U-426, U-757 9 Jan: U-81 10 Jan: Daniel Webster 11 Jan: Kuma 13 Jan: U-231 14 Jan: Ha-50, Sazanami 16 Jan: I-181, USS Macaw, U-544 17 Jan: Ha-51 18 Jan: Yoshida Maru 19 Jan: U-641 20 Jan: U-263 22 Jan: USS Portent 23 Jan: HMS Janus 24 Jan: St David 25 Jan: Suzukaze 28 Jan: Ha-49, U-271, U-571 29 Jan: Samuel Huntington, HMS Spartan, U-364 30 Jan: HMS Hardy, U-314 31 Jan: U-592 Unknown date: USS Scorpion, U-305, U-377
Other incidents	16 Jan: USS Flier
1943 1944 1945 December 1943 February 1944