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The Hunt class was a class of escort destroyer of the Royal Navy. The first vessels were ordered early in 1939, and the class saw extensive service in the Second World War , particularly on the British east coast and Mediterranean convoys .
HMS Derwent was a Hunt-class Type III escort destroyer of the Royal Navy.She was built by Vickers-Armstrongs, in Barrow-in-Furness, and served during the Second World War.In March 1943, she was badly damaged while anchored in Tripoli harbour by aircraft and beached to prevent her from sinking.
The Hunt-class was meant to fill the Royal Navy's need for a large number of small destroyer-type vessels capable of both convoy escort and operations with the fleet, and were designed with a heavy anti-aircraft armament of six 4-inch anti-aircraft guns and a speed of 29 knots (33 mph; 54 km/h).
HMS Badsworth (pennant number L03) was an escort destroyer of the Type II Hunt class. The Royal Navy ordered Badsworth ' s construction three months after the outbreak of the Second World War . Cammell Laird laid down her keel at their Birkenhead yard on 15 May 1940, as Admiralty Job No. J3260 (Yard No. 1055).
HMS Rockwood was a Type III, Hunt class Escort destroyer of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers-Armstrongs in Barrow-in-Furness and served during the Second World War.She was damaged in action in November 1943 by a glide bomb, not fully repaired, took no further part in the war and was broken up for scrap in 1946.
HMS Middleton was a Type II Hunt class destroyer of the Royal Navy and served in the Second World War.Her role was providing support for minelaying operations in the Atlantic and anti-aircraft protection for the North Russian convoys.
HMS Avon Vale (pennant number L06) was an escort destroyer of the Hunt Type II class.The Royal Navy ordered Avon Vale ' s construction three days after the outbreak of the Second World War. [1]
HMS Brocklesby was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.She served during the Second World War, spending much of the time in the English Channel and Mediterranean, taking part in the Dieppe Raid in 1942, and the Allied landings in Sicily and at Salerno in 1943.