HMS Hostile (H55)

	HMS Hostile underway on completion, October 1936
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Hostile
Ordered	13 December 1934
Builder	Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland
Cost	£253,382
Laid down	27 February 1935
Launched	24 January 1936
Completed	10 September 1936
Identification	Pennant number: H55
Fate	Damaged by a mine off Cape Bon 23 August 1940, scuttled by HMS Hero
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	H-class destroyer
Displacement	1,350 long tons (1,370 t) (standard); 1,883 long tons (1,913 t) (deep load);
Length	323 ft (98.5 m)
Beam	33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught	12 ft 5 in (3.8 m)
Installed power	34,000 shp (25,000 kW); 3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers;
Propulsion	2 shafts, Parsons geared steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	5,530 nmi (10,240 km; 6,360 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	137 (peacetime), 146 (wartime)
Sensors and ; processing systems	ASDIC
Armament	4 × single QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns; 2 × Quadruple 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) machine guns; 2 × Quadruple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 20 × Depth charges, 1 rack and 2 throwers;

HMS Hostile (H55) was an H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. She was the first and so far only Royal Navy ship to bear the name Hostile. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship spent considerable time in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. She was transferred to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in October 1939 to hunt for German commerce raiders in the South Atlantic with Force K. Hostile participated in the First Battle of Narvik in April 1940 and the Battle of Calabria in July 1940. The ship was damaged by a mine off Cape Bon in the Strait of Sicily while on passage from Malta to Gibraltar on 23 August 1940. She was then scuttled by HMS Hero.

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