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HMS Hero - World Naval Ships Directory

HMS Hero
Name : HMS Hero
Laid Down : 28th February 1935
Launched : 10th March 1936
Completed : 23rd October 1936
Type : Destroyer
Class : H
Builder : Vickers
Country : UK
Pennants : H99
Fate : To Canada (Chaudiere) 15th November 1943.
Later became : HMCS Chaudiere

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HMS Hero, June 1939.

Timeline Entries :


10th March 1936 - Launched
10th March 1936 - Pennant H99
21st October 1936 - Commissioned for acceptance trials
23rd October 1936 - Arrived Portsmouth
23rd October 1936 - Commissioned
23rd October 1936 - Arrived Portsmouth
21st May 1937 - Arrived Cadiz
27th May 1937 - Arrived Gibraltar
3rd June 1937 - Arrived Cadiz
January 1938 - 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet
10th March 1938 - Arrived Port Pteleos
12th March 1938 - Arrived and sailed St. Konstantinos Bay
14th March 1938 - Arrived Malta
18th April 1938 - Sailed Gibraltar for Malta
21st April 1938 - Arrived Malta
1st August 1938 - Arrived and Sailed Calderas
31st March 1939 - Arrived Sorento
May 1939 - Completed refit at Portsmouth
13th May 1939 - Sailed Haifa for Alexandria
June 1939 - Cdr. Cyril Francis Tower, RN In Command
2nd August 1939 - Recommissioned for service in the Mediterranean
2nd August 1939 - 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean
4th August 1939 - Sailed Portsmouth for Gibraltar
4th August 1939 - Sailed UK for the Mediterranean
7th August 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar
8th August 1939 - Sailed Gibraltar for Malta
11th August 1939 - Arrived at Malta to return to the Mediterranean Fleet
2nd September 1939 - Sailed Malta for Alexandria
2nd September 1939 - 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Division 3, Mediterranean Fleet
2nd October 1939 - Sailed Malta
5th October 1939 - Sailed Gibraltar for duty with the South Atlantic Command at Freetown
11th October 1939 - Arrived Freetown escorting Athlone Castle
18th November 1939 - Sailed Freetown to operate south of Freetown along the convoy route
25th November 1939 - Arrived Freeport
1st December 1939 - Covering the Freetown to Natal shipping route
12th December 1939 - North of St Paul Rocks
15th December 1939 - Arrived at Pernambuco from Freetown, refuelled immediately, and departed for Rio de Janeiro
16th December 1939 - Sailed Pernambuco for the River Plate
18th December 1939 - Searched for supply ship Altmark
22nd December 1939 - Arrived River Plate
24th December 1939 - Arrived Freetown
7th January 1940 - Sailed Freetown escorting HMS Renown
8th January 1940 - Sailed Freetown and joined aircraft carrier Ark Royal off Sierra Leone
10th January 1940 - Detached from HMS Renown for refuelling
19th January 1940 - Arrived Freetown
20th January 1940 - Sailed Freetown as local escort for Convoy SLF.17
22nd January 1940 - Sailed Freetown
29th January 1940 - Arrived Gibraltar
7th February 1940 - Joined Convoy OG.17F
8th February 1940 - Arrived Gibraltar with Convoy OG.17F
10th February 1940 - Sailed Gibraltar for England
10th February 1940 - Sailed Gibraltar
11th February 1940 - Searched for the German ships which had escaped from Vigo
13th February 1940 - Screened HMS Exeter en route to England
15th February 1940 - Arrived Portsmouth
29th February 1940 - Under repair at Portsmouth
10th March 1940 - Cdr. Hilary Worthington Biggs, RN In Command
15th March 1940 - Searched for Submarine Seventeen miles south of Needles
15th March 1940 - Search for Submarine in Christchurch Bay and Poole Bay.
16th March 1940 - Sailed Portsmouth for the Clyde
17th March 1940 - Sailed The Clyde with RFA Petrobus
19th March 1940 - Arrived Scapa Flow
19th March 1940 - Covered Convoys HN.20 and ON.21 and Operation DU Activities
19th March 1940 - Sailed Scapa Flow
19th March 1940 - 2nd Destroyer Flotilla
24th March 1940 - Arrived Sullom Voe to refuel and sailed for anti-submarine patrol west of Fair Island Channel.
25th March 1940 - Sailed Sullom Voe to search for survivors East of Orkney
25th March 1940 - Carrying out Anti-submarine operations N.E. of the Orkneys
26th March 1940 - After a search for a German submarine, joined the Home Fleet
1st April 1940 - 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, 3rd Division
1st April 1940 - Cdr. H.W. Biggs in Command
13th April 1940 - Second Battle of Narvik
19th April 1940 - Involved in the Battle of Cape Spada (North-Western Crete).
7th September 1940 - 14th Destroyer Flotilla
7th September 1940 - Battle Of Punto Stilo, Italy
25th October 1941 - Picked up survivors off HMS Latona North of Bardia
31st March 1942 - Lt. Walter Scott, RN In Command
13th June 1942 - Sailed from Alexandria to join Convoy MW11 which had sailed earlier from Egypt (Operation VIGOROUS).
14th June 1942 - Met convoy and came under air attacks. Under threat of attack by U77
15th June 1942 - Under attack by German E-Boats
4th April 1943 - Sailed Gibraltar for the USA
7th April 1943 - Arrived Ponta Delgada
8th April 1943 - Sailed Ponta Delgada
9th April 1943 - Developed engine defects and detached as escort to HMS Argonaut
15th November 1943 - Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy

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Last edited : 19:05, March 26, 2011
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First Added : 12:32, December 9, 2010
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After service in the 96th Infantry Regiment, Smirnov joined the XIX Corps Air Squadron in 1914, shooting down twelve enemy aircraft in the course of two years. When revolution swept through Russia in November 1917, he escaped the Bolsheviks via a White counter-revolutionary route, eventually joining the RAF in England, serving at the Central Flying School at Upavon. He is shown here in his silver Nieuport 17, having just despatched a Roland C.II.

Captain Ivan Smirnov by Ivan Berryman.
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The mighty Tirpitz demonstrates the effectiveness of her splinter camouflage, surrounded by her net defences at Kaafjord in the Winter of 1943-44.

Tirpitz in Kaafjord by Ivan Berryman.
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