HMS Hasty (H24)

**Hasty**
Ship data
flag	United Kingdom
Ship type	destroyer
class	H class
Shipyard	Denny , Dumbarton
Build number	1277
Order	December 13, 1934
Keel laying	April 15, 1935
Launch	May 5, 1936
Commissioning	November 11, 1936
Whereabouts	Sunk on June 14, 1942 after being hit by a torpedo
Ship dimensions and crew
length	98.45 m ( Lüa ) 95.1 m ( Lpp )
width	10.05 m
Draft	Max. 3.78 m
displacement	Standard : 1,340 ts; maximum: 1,859 ts
crew	145 men
Machine system
machine	3 Admirality 3-drum steam boiler; 2 Parsons turbines with single gear
Machine ; performance	34,000
Top ; speed	36 kn (67 km / h)
propeller	2
Armament
	4 - 120 mm L / 45 Mk.IX guns ; 2 × 4 - 12.7-mm - Fla - MG ; 2 × 4 - torpedo tubes Ø 533 mm; 20 depth charges , ; 2 launchers, 1 drop frame;
Sensors
	Type 124 sonar

HMS Hasty (H24) was a destroyer of the H-Class of the British Royal Navy in World War II .

The ship was launched on May 5, 1936 as part of a class of eight destroyers at Denny in Dumbarton on the Clyde . It entered service on November 11, 1936.

The destroyer was initially used together with the majority of its sister ships in the 2nd destroyer flotilla in the Mediterranean. After the beginning of the war, it was relocated to the Central and later to the South Atlantic in the course of the hunt for German armored ships and blockade breakers . In early 1940 the flotilla was ordered back to the waters around the British Isles . However, HMS Hasty was initially still entrusted with the search for German freighters, whereby a ship was arrested.

In May 1940, all operational ships of the flotilla were moved to the Mediterranean, where they were stationed in Alexandria . HMS Hasty was used to escort convoys and took part in the naval battle at Punta Stilo in July as escort for the battleships . Only a few days later, the sea battle at Cape Spada followed , in which the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni was sunk by a British association led by the light cruiser HMAS Sydney .

During a submarine mission, the destroyer succeeded in sinking the Italian submarine Berillo together with its sister ship HMS Havock on October 2, 1940 north of Sidi Barrani .

In November the destroyer was called to another Malta escort . After the end of the escort task, the covering fleet including HMS Hasty attacked the southern Italian naval base Taranto with torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal .

After another escort to Malta , the destroyer was involved in the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941 . During the evacuation of mainland Greece in April 1941 ( Operation Demon ) and in the following weeks, the ship was in continuous use. Another escort to Malta was followed by uninterrupted operations at the end of May / beginning of June as part of the ultimately unsuccessful attempts to defend the island of Crete against German landing operations ( Operation Merkur ), and the subsequent evacuation of the Allied troops.

In the following years the destroyer was also used in the eastern and central Mediterranean. The ship was involved in both the first and the second naval battle in the Gulf of Syrte . In the meantime, U 79 was sunk north of Sollum on December 23, 1941 , together with HMS Hotspur .

After further Malta convoys, HMS Hasty ran out again in June 1942 as a convoy cover in a large Malta convoy ( Operation Vigorous ). North of Derna , the convoy was attacked by German speedboats on June 14, 1942 . It was HMS Hasty of S 55 torpedoed. The damage was so severe that the ship had to be sunk the following day.

literature

MJ Whitley: Destroyers of World War Two. Arms and Armor Press, London 1988, ISBN 0-85368-910-5 .

HMS Hasty (H24)

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