HMS Hostile (H55)

HMS Hostile ( H55 ) was an H-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy during the Second World War.

The ship was launched on 24 January 1936 as part of a class of eight destroyers at Scotts in Greenock from the stack. Put into service, it was on 10 September 1936.

The destroyer was initially used in conjunction with the majority of its sister ships in the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean. After the war began, he was first moved to the South Atlantic as part of hunting on German battleships in the middle and later. Beginning of 1940 the flotilla was ordered back into the waters around the British Isles.

After German troops had been landed under the company Weserübung by German destroyers in Narvik, HMS Hostile ran out along with her ​​sister ships to block the Ofotfjord. On April 10, 1940, the destroyer took part in the first naval battle in Narvik. It was followed by other missions along the Norwegian coast.

In May 1940, all operational ships of the flotilla were moved to the Mediterranean, where they were stationed in Alexandria. HMS Hostile was used to escort convoys and took in July at the Battle of Punta Stilo as Geleiter for the battleships in part.

On August 23, 1940, HMS Hostile was on the march from Malta to Gibraltar, as the ship off Cape Bon ran on a mine that had been a few days previously set by Italian destroyers. The destroyer was sunk by its sister ship HMS Hero with torpedo.