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HMS Hereward (H93)

HMS Hereward (H93)

HMS "Hereward" (H93), named after Hereward the Wake, was an H-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by the High Walker Yard of Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 28 February 1935, launched on 10 March 1936 and commissioned on 9 December 1936. "Hereward" participated in the Battle of Calabria in July 1940, the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941 and the evacuation of Greece in April 1941. On 25 February, 1941, she also took part of Operation Abstention, an ill-fated attempt to seize the Italian island of Kastelorizo."Hereward" was attacked by enemy German and Italian dive bombers as she evacuated British Commonwealth forces from Crete and was sunk in Kaso Strait east of Crete on 29 May 1941 by Junkers Ju 87 "Stukas".

HMS Herewald successfully evacuated the Dutch monarch from the Netherlands in May 1940.


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