The Hunt class was a class of destroyer escorts of the Royal Navy. They are named after English and Welsh fox hunts. They served as convoy escorts in World War II. A ship class is a group of ships of a similar design. ... A Destroyer Escort (DE) is a small, fast warship designed to be used to escort convoys of merchant marine ships. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ... A fox hunt Fox hunting is a form of hunting for foxes using a pack of scent hounds. ... A convoy is a group of vehicles or ships traveling together for mutual support. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe...

The Hunt class were supposed to be quickly and cheaply built escort destroyers. The Type 1s were under armed; four 4" dual-purpose guns (capable of ship to ship and AA fire) in twin turrets. This was due to a major design error caused by rushed calculations in an overworked design department, leading to instability. One turret had to be removed and ballast added.The next batch of ships had their hulls split lengthways and widened while building to give 33 Type 2s with six 4" guns in 3 turrets. The subsequent 28 Type 3s carried four 4" guns but had two torpedo tubes amidships. The Type 4s were built to a larger different design by J I Thornycroft. J I Thornycroft was a shipbuilding firm started by John Isaac Thornycroft in the 19th century. ...

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.

Type I

• Length: 85m
• Beam: 8.8m
• Draught: 3.8m
• Displacement: 1000t standard, 1450t deep load
• Machinery: 2 shaft parsons turbine, 2 Admiralty 3 drum boilers, 19000 hp
• Speed: 29 kt
• Complement: 146
• Main Armament:
  • Two turrets each with 2 4" guns
• Secondary Armament:

1 x Quad mount 2pdr Pom-Pom (gun)AA 2 x Single mount 20mm AA A steam turbine extracts the energy of dry pressurized superheated steam as mechanical movement. ... A pom-pon is an antiaircraft gun. ...

• Atherstone - built by Cammell Laird, BU 1957
• Berkeley - Cammell laird - bombed during the Dieppe Raid 19 August 1942
• Cattistock - Yarrow - BU 1957
• Cleveland -Yarrow - wrecked in 1957
• Cotswold - Yarrow - BU 1957
• Cottesmore - Yarrow sold to Egypt in 1950 as Ibrahim el Awal
• Eglinton - Vickers Armstrong, Tyne, BU 1956
• Exmoor - Vickers Armstrong, Tyne, sunk by E Boat S-30, off Lowestoft, 25 Feb 1941
• Fernie- John Brown & Company, Clydebank, BU 1956
• Garth - John Brown, Clydebank, BU 1956
• Hambledon - Swan Hunter, BU 1957
• Holderness- Swan Hunter, BU 1956
• Mendip - Swan Hunter - Sold to Nationalist China 1948
• Meynell - Swan Hunter - sold to Ecuador 1954
• Pytchley
• Quantock
• Quorn - built by J. Samuel White, sunk by a linsen explosive motor boat off the Normandy beaches during the D-Day invasion, 2 August 1944
• Southdown
• Tynedale
• Whaddon

Cammell Laird, one of the most famous names in British shipbuilding during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came about following the merger of Laird, Son & Co. ... Dieppes pebble beach and cliff immediately following the raid on 19 August 1942. ... This page is about the plant named Yarrow. ... This page is about the plant named Yarrow. ... The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment. ... E-boat is the British and American name for the World War II German Schnellboot (S-boot), a small, fast torpedo boat a little larger than the American PT boat and the British MTB. // History After the Treaty of Versailles most of Germanys military production was severly curtailed. ... John Brown & Company or John Brown,Clydebank was a British Shipbuilder, resposible for building many famous ships // Origins The shipyard was founded by the Thomson Brothers at Finnieston, Glasgow, Scotland in 1847. ... Swan Hunter, formerly known as Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, is one of the best known shipbuilding companies in the United Kingdom. ... HMS Quorn (L66) was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, built in 1940 and sunk off the Normandy coast in 1944. ... J. Samuel White was a British shipbuilding firm which came to prominence during the Victorian era. ... Land on Normandy In military parlance, D-Day is a term often used to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. ...

Type II

• Displacement: 1050 t (1600 t deep load)
• Speed: 27 kt
• Complement: 168
• Main Armament:
  • 3 x Twin 4" turrets
• Secondary Armament
  • 1 x Quad 2 pdr Pom-Pom (gun)
  • 2 x Single 20mm AA

• Avon Vale
• Badsworth
• Beaufort
• Bedale
• Bicester
• Blackmore
• Blankney
• Bramham
• Calpe
• Chiddingfold
• Cowdray
• Croome
• Dulverton
• Eridge
• Exmoor
• Farndale
• Grove
• Heythrop
• Hursley
• Hurworth
• Lamerton
• Lauderdale
• Ledbury
• Middleton
• Oakley (L72)
• Oakley (L98)
• Puckeridge
• Silverton
• Southwold
• Tetcott
• Wheatland
• Zetland

A pom-pon is an antiaircraft gun. ... HMS Bramham (L51) coat of arms The HMS Bramham pennant L51 was a Royal Navy ship laid down in Alexander Stephen & Sons Shipyards of Glasgow, Scotland on 7 April 1941. ... HMS Dulverton, the first ship of that name was a Second World War-era Type II hunt class destroyer of the Royal Navy. ...

Type III Albrighton Class

The Albrightons came into service in 1941.

• Length 280 ft
• Beam 32 ft
• Draught 8 ft
• Displacement: 1050 t
• Speed: 27 kts
• Range: 280 t fuel
• Complement: 168
• Main Armament:
  • 2 x Dual 4" turrets
  • 2 x 21 inch torpedo tubes
• Secondary armament:
  • Single 2-pdr Pom-pom
  • 2 x Single 20mm AA

Those not lost during the war or sold after the war were scrapped by 1963. A pom-pon is an antiaircraft gun. ...

• Airedale, built J. Brown, lost June 1942 after aerial atatck.
• Albrighton, built J. Brown. to Federal German Navy in 1959 as Raule.

• Aldenham, built Cammell Laird. Mined December 1944.
• Belvoir, built Cammell Laird
• Blean, built Hawthorn Leslie, lost December 1942 torpedoed by U 443
• Bleasdale, built Vickers-Armstrong
• Bolebroke, built Swan-Hunter. Transferred to Greece as Pindos
• Border, built Swan-Hunter. Transferred to Greece as Adrias. Written off after mined October 1943.
• Catterick, built Vickers-Armstrong. bought by Greece in 1946 as Hastings
• Derwent, built Vickers-Armstrong. Written off after torpedoed by aircraft March 1943.
• Easton, built White
• Eggesford, built White. Sold to Federal German Navy in 1959 as Brommy
• Eskdale, built Cammell Laird. Transferred to Norwegian Navy. Torpedoed by E boat April 1943.
• Glaisdale, built Cammell Laird. Transferred to Norwegian Navy. Bought by Norway 1946 as Narvik
• Goathland, built Fairfield. Written off after mined July 1944

• Haldon, built Fairfield. Transferred to Free French as La Combattante. Mined Feb. 1945
• Hatherleigh, built Vickers-Armstrong. Transferred to Greece as Kanaris
• Haydon, built Vickers-Armstrong
• Holcombe, built Stephen. Torpedoed by U 593 December 1943.
• Limbourne, built Stephen. Torpedoed by T 22 Oct. 1943
• Melbreak, built Swan-Hunter
• Modbury, built Swan-Hunter. Transferred to Greece as Miaoulis
• Penylan, built Vickers-Armstrong. Torpedoed by E-boat Dec. 1942
• Rockwood, built Vickers-Armstrong. Written off after hit by glider bomb November 1943
• Stevenstone, built White
• Talybont, built White
• Tanatside, built Yarrow. Bought by Greece 1946 as Adrias
• Wensleydale, built Yarrow. Written off after collision November 1943

Cammell Laird, one of the most famous names in British shipbuilding during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came about following the merger of Laird, Son & Co. ... The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment. ... E-boat is the British and American name for the World War II German Schnellboot (S-boot), a small, fast torpedo boat a little larger than the American PT boat and the British MTB. // History After the Treaty of Versailles most of Germanys military production was severly curtailed. ... The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment. ... E-boat is the British and American name for the German Schnellboot (S-boot), a small, fast torpedo boat a little larger than the American PT boat and the British MTB. Specification Length - 34. ... A glide bomb is an aerial bomb that is modified with aerodynamic surfaces to modify its flight path from a purely ballistic one, to a flatter, gliding, one. ...

Type IV

Modification of the Hunt hull design by Thornycroft.

• Length: 90 m (296 ft)
• Beam: 10.15 m (33 ft)
• Draught: 3.6m (12 ft)
• Displacement: 1175 t
• Machinery: 2 shaft Parsons Turbines, 3 Admiralty 3 Drum boilers, 19,000 hp
• Speed: 27 kt
• Complement: 170

Main Armament:

• • 3 x Dual 4" turret
  • 3 x 21" torpedo tubes
• Secondary Armament
  • 1 x Quad 2pdr pom-pom
  • 2 x dual 20mm AA, 2 x single 20mm AA

• Brecon - BU 1962
• Brissenden - BU 1965

Reference:

• D.K.Brown, Nelson to Vanguard - 2000, Chatham Publishing
• Conways, All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1922-1946
• M.J.Whitley, Destroyers of World War Two, 1988, Cassel

External links

• Czech site

Uboat site