Greek destroyer Kanaris (L53)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	Hatherleigh
Builder:	Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle upon Tyne)
Laid down:	12 December 1940
Launched:	18 December 1941
Greece
Name:	Kanaris - ΒΠ Κανάρης
Namesake:	Konstantinos Kanaris
Commissioned:	27 July 1942
Decommissioned:	1959
Identification:	pennant number: L53
Fate:	returned to UK and sold for scrap in 1960
General characteristics
Class & type:	Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement:	Full load 1,490 tons Standard 1,050 tons
Length:	85.3 m (280 ft)
Beam:	11.4 m (37 ft)
Draft:	2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)
Propulsion:	Boilers: 2 Admiralty 3 drum boilers, Engines: 2 shaft Parsons turbine, Shafts: 2 (twin screw ship), Power: 19,000 shp, (14.2 MW)
Speed:	26-knot (48 km/h) maximum 20-knot (37 km/h) maximum operational
Range:	2,350 nautical miles (4,350 km) at 20.0 knots (37 km/h)
Complement:	170
Armament:	4 × 4-inch (102 mm) (2 × 2) guns, one 4 × 40 mm A/A QF 2-pounder pompom gun, 3 × 20 mm A/A, 2 × 21-inch (533 mm) T/T, one depth charge track

Kanaris (Greek: ΒΠ Κανάρης) was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer that was originally built for the British Royal Navy as HMS Hatherleigh but never commissioned. Before her completion, she was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy and commissioned on 27 July 1942 as Kanaris in order to relieve heavy losses of ships sustained by the Royal Hellenic Navy during the German invasion of 1941. Kanaris served throughout the Second World War and during the Greek Civil War. She was returned to the Royal Navy in 1959 and broken up for scrap in 1960.^[1]

References

1. Raymond V B Blackman (ed.). Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-4,. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd,. p. 112.

Publications

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
• English, John (1987). The Hunts: a history of the design, development and careers of the 86 destroyers of this class built for the Royal and Allied Navies during World War II. England: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905-617-444.

External links

• RHS Kanaris (L 53) at UBoat.net