Dates: 1940 - 1957

Type I HUNT Class Escort Destroyer ordered from Swan Hunter, Newcastle under 1939 Programme on 21st March 1939 The ship was laid down on 8th June that year and launched on 12th December 1939. She was the 2nd RN warship to carry the name, that of a Fox-hunt in Hampshire and previously carried by a minesweeper sold in 1922. She was completed 0on 8th June 1940. Following a successful WARSHIP WEEK National Savings campaign in March 1942 this Escort Destroyer was, very appropriately ’adopted’ by the civil community of Hambledon, Hampshire.

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