HMS Hereward

HMS Hereward, named after Hereward the Wake, was a H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. She was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet and spent four months in Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War in mid-1937, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. When Second World War began in September 1939, the ship was in the Mediterranean but was shortly transferred to the South Atlantic to hunt for German commerce raiders and blockade runners, capturing one of the latter in November.Hereward Hereward was transferred to the Home Fleet in May 1940 and rescued Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands after the Germans had invaded.

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H93
length 98.45 metre, speed 36 knot, beam 10.05 metre, draft 3.78 metre, 
shipwreck, destroyer, G and H-class destroyer, Royal Navy, Vickers-Armstrongs, 

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Location: 35.3333, 26.3333, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

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1936-12-09T00:00:00Z

1936-12-09T00:00:00Z

ship completed

1935-02-28T00:00:00Z

1935-02-28T00:00:00Z

keel laying

1939-09-01T00:00:00Z

1939-09-01T00:00:00Z

World War II Q362

1936-03-10T00:00:00Z

1936-03-10T00:00:00Z

ship launching

1941-05-29T00:00:00Z

1941-05-29T00:00:00Z

shipwrecking

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Frameless

Pictures For Illustrating Ritchie Ii Book. November and December 1942, Alexandria, Pictures of Paintings by Lieutenant Commander R Langmaid, Rn, Official Fleet Artist. These Pictures Are For Illustrating a Nava A13637

Hereward first twin mounting

HMS Hereward (H93) underway on 20 December 1939

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		Dreadnought Project page@		Wikidata
link	page		naval-history.net page@		Wikidata
link	page		uboat.net page@		Wikidata
site	fort		Kazarma Fortress	fortress, fortification	Wikidata
site	shipwreck		HMS Hereward	shipwreck, G and H-class destroyer, destroyer	Wikidata
commons	image		Pictures For Illustrating Ritchie Ii Book. November and December 1942, Alexandria, Pictures of Paintings by Lieutenant Commander R Langmaid, Rn, Official Fleet Artist. These Pictures Are For Illustrating a Nava A13637		Commons
commons	image		Hereward first twin mounting		Commons
commons	image		HMS Hereward (H93) underway on 20 December 1939		Commons