HMS Haydon

Haydon underway, c. 1943
History
United Kingdom
Name	Haydon
Ordered	23 August 1940
Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker
Laid down	1 May 1941
Launched	2 April 1942
Completed	24 October 1942
Honours and awards	Sicily 1943 Salerno 1943 Aegean 1943 South France 1944 North Sea 1945
Fate	Scrapped in 1958
Badge	On a Field paly of eight, Gold and Red, a fox's mask White, holding in the mouth a bugle horn stringed also white.
General characteristics
Class and type	Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement	1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard 1,435 long tons (1,458 t) full load
Length	85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) o/a
Beam	10.16 m (33 ft 4 in)
Draught	3.51 m (11 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp (14,000 kW)
Speed	27 knots (31 mph; 50 km/h) 25.5 kn (29.3 mph; 47.2 km/h) full
Range	2,350 nmi (4,350 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h)
Complement	168
Armament	4 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX 4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk. VIII AA guns on quad mount MK.VII 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns on single mounts P Mk. III 2 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks

HMS Haydon was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was a member of the third subgroup of the class, and saw service in the Second World War. Most of the ships of this class were named after British fox hunts. She was the first Royal Navy warship to bear this name, after the Haydon hunt in Northumberland.^[1] In 1942 she was adopted by the civil community of Wallsend in Northumberland, as part of Warship Week.^{[citation needed]}