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 and type	Type III Template:Sclass2-
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 Template:Sclass2- 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

^ Raymond V B Blackman (ed.). Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-4,. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd,. p. 112.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

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.
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 0-905617-44-4.

External links

RHS Kanaris (L 53) at UBoat.net

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[1] Raymond V B Blackman (ed.). Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-4,. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd,. p. 112.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

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