HMS Hurworth

HMS Hurworth (L28)

Navy:	Royal Navy
Type:	Escort destroyer
Class:	Hunt (Type II)
Pennant:	L 28
Built by:	Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.): Parsons
Laid down:	10 Apr, 1940
Launched:	10 Apr, 1941
Commissioned:	5 Oct, 1941
Complement:	168
Lost:	22 Oct, 1943 Sunk off east off Kalymnos, Dodecanese. Eastern Mediterranean, Kos Island in the Aegean Sea by mine laid by German minelayer 'Drache'. Carrying supplies to Leros and assisting mined Greek sister ship 'Adrias'
History:	29 May, 1942 The German submarine U-568 was sunk in the Mediterranean north-east of Tobruk, in position 32.42N, 24.53E, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Hero and the British escort destroyers HMS Eridge and HMS Hurworth. 30 Oct, 1942 The German submarine U-559 was sunk in the Mediterranean north-east of Port Said, in position 32.30N, 33.00E, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Pakenham, HMS Petard, HMS Hero and the British escort destroyers HMS Dulverton, HMS Hurworth and a British Wellesley aircraft.