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    HMS Hesperus was an H-class destroyer that had originally been ordered by the Brazilian Navy with the name Juruena in the late 1930s, but was purchased...
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    Hearty, which was commissioned and renamed Hesperus, (to avoid confusion with another destroyer, HMS Hardy). Hesperus was very similar to other H-class destroyers...
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    sinking her. The destroyer HMS Hesperus then arrived, drove U-99 away and turned to rescue survivors from Laurentic. Hesperus picked up Laurentic's commander...
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    anti–submarine operations in the Battle of the Atlantic, buried from HMS Hesperus. Dennis Wilson (1944–1983), American musician and cofounder of the Beach...
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  • between England and Adelaide, South Australia HMS Hesperus (H57), a destroyer in the Royal Navy Hesperus (beetle), a genus of rove beetles Esperos, a modern...
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    same-navy collisions in terms of loss of life was the collision between HMS Victoria and HMS Camperdown, which took place in the Mediterranean in 1893. A total...
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  • Escort group B2 was led by Cdr D MacIntyre in HMS Hesperus; other ships of this group were destroyer HMS Whitehall and five corvettes. They were joined...
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    the work-up. Prince of Wales and the escorting destroyers HMS Electra, Express, and HMS Hesperus, were formed into Force G in Britain; they sailed from Greenock...
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    aircraft were shot down by British Martlet fighters from the escort carrier HMS Audacity, which was sunk during the voyage along with a destroyer and two...
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    from early 1943, after HMS Hesperus spent three months in dry dock following her sinking of U-357 in December 1942, and after HMS Harvester was torpedoed...
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