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	Hunt
		These prolific escort destroyers performed AA defense and convoy escort duties during WW II.
		There were four sub-categories ("Types") of Hunt class escorts, of which the Type 2 class with 35 ships was the most numerous.
		And the major parts needed to convert the ship to a Type I Hunt class escort destroyer are included.
	www.steelnavy.com /Hunt.htm (137 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Destroyer escort (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Hunt class was a class of destroyer escorts of the Royal Navy.
		Destroyer escorts customarily went alongside a designated merchant marine or navy tanker in the convoy to fuel, although some preferred to fuel astern of the tanker.
		Since the destroyer was the only surface fleet unit that could effectively locate, attack and destroy a submarine, it was logical that we should develop a destroyer type that would concentrate on the submarine and thereby release destroyers for fleet assignment.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Destroyer-escort (538 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The contemporary Hunt class of GRP hulled mine countermeasure vessels maintain the Hunt names lineage in the Royal Navy.
		The Hunts were modelled on the 1938 escort sloop Bittern">Bittern, a ship of 1,190 tons with 3,300 shp on geared turbines for 18Â¾ knots and an armament of three twin Mark XIX mounts for the QF gun Mark XVI.
		The Hunt class was to ship the same armament, plus a quadruple QF 2 pounder mount Mark VII on a hull of the same length but with less beam and installed power raised to 19,000 shp to give.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Hunt_class_destroyer (1480 words)

	Classification of RN Ships (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During WWII the Destroyer was still primarily a combined gun and torpedo armed ship, although used at first for convoy escort they were considered too valuable as Fleet escorts for this role and so the specialised escort vessels were introduced to relieve them of these duties.
		The Hunt class destroyer designed prior to WWII was a scaled down destroyer specifically for convoy escort duties, the main difference between the Black Swan and the Hunt was speed, the Hunt destroyer had a 10 Knot advantage over the Black Swan.
		Destroyers in particular from the First World War tended to be classed by letter for each "run" of building, the letter was incremented in much the same way as car registration plates are.
	www.middle-watch.co.uk /Classes.htm (1852 words)

	Destroyer
		Modern destroyers are equivalent in tonnage but drastically superior in firepower to cruisers of the World War II era, capable of carrying nuclear missiles able to destroy cities.
		Destroyers were involved in the skirmishes that prompted the Battle of Heligoland Bight, and filled a range of roles in the Battle of Gallipoli, acting as troops transports and fire support vessels, as well as their fleet-screening role.
		The destroyers (as well as frigates) are, as always, the workhorses of the fleet, the former optimised for air defence and the latter for surface and subsurface warfare.
	www.libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Destroyer.html (5092 words)

	Polish Navy Homepage 1939-1947 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Hunt class evolved from the unsuitability of converting old fleet destroyers to escort destroyers.
		The main reasons why such a class were needed was, firstly, that a new, utilitarian design could be built quicker than older construction became available for conversion, and secondly, that the high speed of the older destroyers was wasted as escorts, asdics not working effectively at anything over 20 knots.
		Hunt class escort destroyers were designed before war, as smaller version of so called 'Fleet Destroyers'.
	www.polishnavy.pl /ships/destroyers/slazak/history.html (192 words)

	[Hunt class minesweeper (1978)] \| [All the best Hunt class minesweeper (1978) resources at informationhunting.com] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Hunt class is a class of thirteen mine countermeasure vessels (MCMV) of the Royal Navy.
		The capabilities of the remaining eight vessels of the Hunt Class have been significantly enhanced by the installation of Sonar Type 2193 and the NAUTIS 3 command system.
		The performance of Sonar 2193 exceeds that of any other mine hunting sonar in service in the world today and is capable of detecting and classifying an object the size of a football up to 1,000 metres [1].
	www.informationhunting.com /Royal_Navy/Hunt_class_minesweeper_(1978) (292 words)

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		This Imperator-class Star Destroyer was under the command of Captain Dagon Niriz and was used to transport Thrawn back to the Unknown Regions after his appointment to Admiral.
		Later when Rakat's flagship, the Sentencer, was destroyed and Rakat killed, the Slayer became the flagship for this Remnant fleet.
		The Temptation was destroyed when Admiral Jarron Lessanck launched his final gambit and revealed he was a traitor defecting to the New Republic, but not before leaving a trail of destruction.
	adp.bluephantom.de /fleet.htm (2424 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Hunt (Type I) class Escort destroyers
		Conventional modern destroyers like the Tribal class were too expensive to be built in the numbers required for escort of merchant shipping.
		The Hunt class was a comparatively inexpensive updated turn of the century \"torpedo boat destroyer\" with modern quick firing guns also suitable for anti-aircraft protection.
		The Hunt Class destroyer were conceived as a destroyer for use in the confines of coastal operation such as the North Sea and Mediterranean, they were required to have a good all round armament of 6 4\" HA guns plus lighter weapons.
	www.uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=22 (272 words)

	Destroyer Command - History
		Destroyers at first could only attempt to ram submarines or destroy them with gunfire, but since the early submarine made its attacks while surfaced there was a good chance of success with these methods.
		While the destroyer remained the chief defense of the battle fleet against submarines, naval planners realized that the destroyer's high speed and slender shape did not lend themselves to the anti-submarine struggle.
		Destroyer combat did not always prove that deadly, but the intense involvement of destroyers in all types of naval action caused severe losses.
	www.destroyercommand.com /campaigns.html (3127 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Two if by sea (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Egyptian destroyer Al-Fateh, a Z-class British-made destroyer of World War II vintage on patrol off Sharm Al-Sheikh, was the first to detect the beginning of the massive Israeli air strike, opening fire on the Israeli planes and giving warning to the small military air field at Hurghada.
		That evening, at destroyer brigade headquarters, established on the Skory-class destroyer Suez, the combat information centre reported the sudden appearance of a small target close to the Great Pass Beacon that was closing in at a very slow speed, and its equally sudden disappearance.
		As a routine precaution, destroyers stationed in Alexandria had changed their berth after twilight every day after full readiness was declared on 14 May. Thus, two destroyers tied to buoys opposite the break-water had shifted berth to the inner quays of Alexandria harbour, and some auxiliary vessels were tied in their place.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1998/380/fo3.htm (2526 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Hunt (Type I) class Escort destroyers
		The Hunt class was a comparatively inexpensive updated turn of the century \"torpedo boat destroyer\" with modern quick firing guns also suitable for anti-aircraft protection.
		The Hunt Class destroyer were conceived as a destroyer for use in the confines of coastal operation such as the North Sea and Mediterranean, they were required to have a good all round armament of 6 4\" HA guns plus lighter weapons.
		Some of the Hunt Class ships never left home waters, these were mostly the Type I ships, many being fitted with a 2 pdr bow chaser pom pom.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=22 (272 words)

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	BBC - WW2 People's War - H.M.S. Hambledon (L37)
		HMS Hambledon was a Hunt Class Destroyer completed and commissioned in 1939.
		H.M.S. Hambledon, along with two other Hunt Class Destroyers, was chosen to escort the battleship Ohio up the Keil Canal.
		Out of fifty Hunt Class Destroyers, twenty were lost during the war.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/99/a5384199.shtml (603 words)

	AbeBooks: Suchergebnisse - Mason und Last Destroyer
		Story of the last British manned destroyer to be lost in World War II by an eye-witness who served on HMS Aldenham.
		The Hunt Class Destroyer in the Mediterranean with two- thirds of the crew lost after being mined.
		On her maiden voyage in 1942 she assisted in the destruction of U-567 before entering the Mediterranean where she spent the rest of the war.
	www.abebooks.de /search/sortby/3/an/Mason+/tn/+Last+Destroyer (410 words)

	The DD 963 SPRUANCE - class
		The thirty-one SPRUANCE class destroyers were developed for the primary mission of anti-submarine warfare, including operations as an integral part of attack carrier forces.
		But in 1998 the seven SPRUANCE class destroyers which did not receive the Tomahawk VLS upgrade were decommissioned after only two decades of service, to accommodate the introduction of the improved AEGIS-capable ARLEIGH BURKE destroyers.
		In the beginning all SPRUANCE class destroyers were equipped with a Mk-112 launcher for ASROC behind the #1 Mk-45 leightweight gun mount.
	navysite.de /dd/dd963class.htm (853 words)

	Hunt class destroyer - Definition, explanation
		The Hunt class were supposed to be quickly and cheaply built escort destroyers.
		Except for the Type 1s, Hunt class destroyers served with the Royal Navy, Polish Navy, Royal Hellenic Navy (Greece) and Royal Norwegian Navy.
		There is a modern Hunt class of of GRP hulled minehunters.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/h/hu/hunt_class_destroyer.php (324 words)

	Island Race - Special Forces on Tresco
		The senior officer of the convoy on the destroyer signalled to Daniel “What’s your maximum speed?”.
		Daniel flashed back “You would be surprised” and put her up to 28 knots, ran round the destroyer’s bow and shot into Cowes.
		We thought a destroyer had got us at last, we didn’t know what it was as we hadn’t yet heard about the Lee Light Wellington bombers which would pick up German subs on the surface by radar and then drop their depth-charges.
	www.islandrace.com /waffle/vol34.htm (494 words)

	Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS Ledbury (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hunt-class destroyer HMS Ledbury was ordered two days after the outbreak of the war, part of the second series of Hunt-class ships, and she was laid down at the Southampton yard of J. Thornycroft in January 1940.
		Only two months later she was close escort in the Pedestal convoy to Malta, and her defiance of Axis aircraft and submarines was a crucial factor in the successful defence of the island.
		During the fierce attacks which dogged the convoy, Ledbury claimed three enemy aircraft destroyed and five damaged, and was one of three destroyers which helped the crippled tanker Ohio into Grand Harbour.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/ledbury.asp (558 words)

	The History of the USS HUNT DD 674 in WWII
		The HUNT DD 674 was a member of the FLETCHER class; FLETCHERS represented the largest class of destroyers built, and would serve into the Fifties and Sixties.
		On almost a monthly basis, HUNT sheparded her carriers to within striking distance of the "Home Islands." By March 15, HUNT and FRANKLIN, along with other destroyers in the carrier's screen, had maneuvered closer to Japan than any other carrier had previously ventured.
		The HUNT was refueling on the port side of the NEW JERSEY and got 23000 gallons of fuel before her fuel lines parted.
	members.aol.com /dlegato/histhunt.htm (991 words)

	HMS Thetis born and died on the River Mersey 1/6/39
		Hunt class destroyer HMS Hurworth struck a mine and sank in the Aegean.
		Hunt class destroyer HMS Limbourne torpedoed by an E-boat in the English Channel and later sank by Royal navy.
		Hunt class destroyer HMS Tynedale torpedoed in the Western Mediterranean by a U-boat.
	www.mikekemble.com /ww2/britsubthetis.html (5696 words)

	Destroyer Escort
		They would be smaller than a Destroyer and not have the firepower, but they could accomplish many of the same task that the Destroyer was designed to do for half the cost.
		Of the 563 Destroyer Escorts built during and shortly after WW 2, 78 were for England, 6 for France, and 8 for Brazil.
		The first Destroyer Escort that was commissioned was the USS Brennan DE 13 on Jan 20, 1943, at Mare Island, Vallejo, Calif. the DEs would supply the United States Navy with the economical destroyer type ship which could be mass produced using less expensive material.
	www.sunwestmonograms.com /wiseman/destroyer_escort.htm (3060 words)

	Nebula-class Star Destroyer - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Following the New Class practice of using the same hull for multiple configurations, the Nebula-class Star Destroyers shared their basic spaceframe design with the Endurance-class fleet carriers.
		Nebula-class Star Destroyers were equipped with a Class 1 hyperdrive, and they carried 1,600 troops and enough consumables for five to six months, depending on configuration.
		These naming conventions would imply that this Star Destroyer could be called "Obi-Wan-class"; but many warship classes (especially in the British Royal Navy, which operates a duel-naming system) are named not for a lead ship, but with a common noun that unites the names of the ships, at least in the initial batch.
	starwars.wikia.com /wiki/Nebula-class_Star_Destroyer (876 words)

	Malta Marine Foundation ~ SOUTHWOLD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HMS Southwold a Hunt Class destroyer of which the Royal Navy had 86 in its fleet, was built by White and was launched on the 25/5/41.
		Hunt Class destroyers had a net tonnage of 1050 tons, and were 86 meters long with a beam of 9.5 meters; these destroyers had a top speed of 25 knots and were used for convoy escorts.
		Cruiser Squadron with a strong destroyer force, and another scout close escort running ahead with an the anti-aircraft cruiser Carlisle with 4 hunt class destroyers.
	www.marinefoundation.org /wreckshmssouthhold.htm (960 words)

	East Bay Armchair Generals
		Hunt Class Destroyer (left) at the front of the convoy with S-boots in background.
		A near collision between a group of Fairmiles and the lead Destroyer as the British convoy heads for safe haven.
		The German Destroyer blasts at the Fairmiles as fires burn aboard.
	www.warsweb.com /EBAG-files/06.06.03-EBAG/06.06.03-EBAG.html (439 words)

	Ecuador - Navy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Operationally, the navy was organized into a destroyer division, a squadron of fast-missile craft, a squadron of corvettes, a submarine squadron, and auxiliary vessels and transports.
		The Hunt-class destroyers were retired and were replaced in 1980 by a United States-manufactured Gearing-class destroyer, renamed the Presidente Eloy Alfaro.
		This destroyer remained the principal surface vessel as of 1989 (see table 21, Appendix).
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-3992.html (550 words)

	HMS Brocklesby Brass Ships Badge (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Type 2 Hunt Class Destroyer, the first HMS Brocklesby was launched at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead on 30th September 1940.
		HMS Brocklesby, as with the other Hunt Class ships, was designed to carry 6 x 4 inch in three twin mountings.
		This class are almost twice the displacement of the Ton class and almost as big as the wartime Algerines.
	www.shipsbadges.co.uk /hms_brocklesby.php (369 words)

	HMS MIDDLETON
		Destroying buoyant mines by sweeping them by cutting the mooring wires with a towed wire sweep and then blowing up the buoyant case on the surface.
		HMS Middleton is the seventh Hunt class mine countermeasures vessel (MCMV) to be built for the Royal Navy.
		The Hunt class are the only RN ships capable of both mine hunting and mine sweeping operations.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /sinbin/hms_middleton.htm (594 words)

	Chapter-51 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At this time, RN Destroyers Escapade, Ithuriel, Onslow, Westcott, Wishart, and Wrestler were patrolling a line between Porto Empedocle (on Sicily's coast) and Patelleria to prevent any MAS boats interference.
		The city and the airfield are hit at dawn and, despite a gallant opposition delivered by RAF and RAAF hurricane (which were able to destroy 7 B3A1 and 6 A6M2 to the cost of 7 of their owns) both targets are heavily hit.
		Engaging German and Italian artillery batteries shelling the beach, the Greek destroyer Krite was hit twice by 150mm shells and had her aft 4in twin mount destroyed.
	users.domaindlx.com /fantasque/original/Chapter-51.htm (8431 words)

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