HMS Hursley (L84)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Hursley
Ordered	20 December 1939
Builder	Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Laid down	21 December 1940
Launched	25 July 1941
Commissioned	2 April 1942
Identification	Pennant number: L84
Honours and awards	Mediterranean 1942–43 Sicily 1943 Aegean 1943
Fate	Transferred to Greece, 2 November 1943
Badge	On a Field Red in front of a hunting horn erect the sails of a windmill White.
Greece
Name	Kriti
Acquired	2 November 1943
Fate	Returned to UK, 12 November 1959 Sold for scrapping, 27 April 1960
General characteristics
Class and type	Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement	1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard 1,430 long tons (1,450 t) full load
Length	85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) o/a
Beam	9.6 m (31 ft 6 in)
Draught	2.51 m (8 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp
Speed	27 knots (31 mph; 50 km/h) 25.5 kn (29.3 mph; 47.2 km/h) full
Range	3,600 nmi (6,700 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
Complement	164
Armament	6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III 110 depth charges, 2 throwers, 3 racks

HMS Hursley was a Second World War Type II Hunt-class escort destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She is the only Royal Navy ship to have carried this name. Hursley is a village in Hampshire. Commissioned in 1942, she served in the Mediterranean, before being transferred to the Hellenic Navy in November 1943 and renamed Kriti. She took part in the landings in Sicily, Anzio, and southern France, and remained in Greek service until 1959.^[1]