Hunt-class destroyer

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HMS Blean, a Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Class overview
Builders	John Brown & Company Cammell Laird Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Hawthorn Leslie and Company Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Alexander Stephen and Sons Swan Hunter John I. Thornycroft & Company J. Samuel White Vickers-Armstrongs Yarrow Shipbuilders
Operators	Royal Navy (72 ships) Royal Hellenic Navy (7) Polish Navy (3)  Royal Norwegian Navy (3) Free French Navy (1) After 1945: Federal German Navy (3)  Indian Navy (3)  Ecuadorian Navy (2)  Egyptian Navy (2)  Royal Danish Navy (3)  Israeli Navy (1)
Built	1939–1943
In commission	1940–1963
Completed	86
Lost	23

The Hunt class was a class of escort destroyer of the Royal Navy. The first vessels were ordered early in 1939, and the class saw extensive service in the Second World War, particularly on the British east coast and Mediterranean convoys. They were named after British fox hunts. The modern Hunt-class GRP hulled mine countermeasure vessels maintain the Hunt names lineage in the Royal Navy.