HMS Hesperus (H57)
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HMS Hesperus
HMS Hesperus (H57) was an H-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.
She was originally laid down as Juruena for the Brazilian Navy by John I. Thornycroft and Company at Woolston in Southampton on 6 July 1938, launched on 1 August 1939, purchased in September 1939 and named Hearty. Commissioned on 22 January 1940, Hearty was renamed Hesperus on 27 February, after the Hesperus of mythology.
Hesperus attacked and sank the enemy German submarines U-208 while in company with the destroyer HMS Harvester in the Atlantic west of Gibraltar on 7 December 1941, U-93 in the North Atlantic on 15 January 1942, U-191 in the North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell in Greenland on 23 April 1943 and U-186 in the Atlantic north of the Azores on 12 May 1943.
Hesperus was sold for scrap on 26 November 1946 and broken up at Grangemouth.
See HMS Hesperus for other ships of this name.