HMS Hurworth (L28)
Hurworth L 28 | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Hurworth |
| Ordered | 20 December 1939 |
| Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker |
| Laid down | 10 April 1940 |
| Launched | 16 April 1941 |
| Commissioned | 5 October 1941 |
| Identification | Pennant number: L28 |
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| Fate | Sunk by a mine, 22 October 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Hunt-class destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | o/a 85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) |
| Draught | 2.51 m (8 ft 3 in) |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 2,560 nmi (4,740 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h) |
| Complement | 168 |
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HMS Hurworth was a Second World War Type II Hunt-class escort destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She spent most of her career in the Mediterranean. She was lost to a mine in the Aegean Sea in 1943.