HMS Hero (H99)
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HMS Hero
HMS Hero (H99) 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 23 October 1936. Hero participated in the Second Battle of Narvik in April 1940, the Battle of Calabria and the Battle of Cape Spada in July 1940, and the evacuation of Greece in April 1941, and attacked and sank the enemy German submarines U-568 while in company with the frigates Eridge and Hurworth in the Mediterranean north-east of Tobruk on 29 May 1942 and U-559 while in company with the destroyers Petard and Pakenham, and the frigates Dulverton and Hurworth and a Wellesley aircraft of the Royal Air Force in the Mediterranean north-east of Port Said on 30 October 1942. HMS Hero was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on 15 November 1943 and renamed Chaudiere. She paid off on 17 August 1945 and was sold for scrap on 19 March 1946.
See HMS Hero for other ships of this name.