HMS Hostile

HMS Hostile (H55) was an H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. She was the first and so far only Royal Navy ship to bear the name Hostile. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship spent considerable time in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. She was transferred to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in October 1939 to hunt for German commerce raiders in the South Atlantic with Force K. Hostile participated in the First Battle of Narvik in April 1940 and the Battle of Calabria in July 1940. The ship was damaged by a mine off Cape Bon in the Strait of Sicily while on passage from Malta to Gibraltar on 23 August 1940. She was then scuttled by HMS Hero.

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H55
length 98.45 metre, speed 36 knot, beam 10.05 metre, draft 3.78 metre,
destroyer, G and H-class destroyer, shipwreck, Royal Navy, Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company,

Location: 36.8833, 11.3167, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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1940-08-23T00:00:00Z

shipwrecking

1936-01-24T00:00:00Z

ship launching

1940-04-09T00:00:00Z

Norwegian Campaign

1935-02-27T00:00:00Z

keel laying

1936-09-10T00:00:00Z

ship completed

0254-01-01T00:00:00Z

-254 Siege of Aspis

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source

event	armed conflict	254	Siege of Aspis	siege, Roman Republic, Ancient Carthage	Wikidata
link	page		Dreadnought Project page^@		Wikidata
link	page		naval-history.net page^@		Wikidata
link	page		uboat.net page^@		Wikidata
site	shipwreck		HMS Havock	shipwreck, G and H-class destroyer, destroyer	Wikidata
site	shipwreck		HMS Hostile	shipwreck, G and H-class destroyer, destroyer	Wikidata
site	shipwreck	1938	HMS Manchester	Town-class light cruiser, Gloucester-class light cruiser, shipwreck, light cruiser	Wikidata

HMS Hostile

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