HMS Hardy (H87)
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HMS Hardy was the flotilla leader for the H-class destroyers, built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship spent considerable time in Spanish waters, e
HMS Hardy 1936
Captain Warburton-Lee
The wreckage of Hardy photographed in July 1962
Thirty-two of the casualties of the sinking of HMS Hardy, all unidentified, are interred at the Commonwealth War Graves section of Håkvik cemetery in Narvik, alongside two identified casualties from HMS Hunter
HMS Hunter (H35)
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HMS Hunter was a H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship enforced the arms blockade imposed on both sides by Britain and France,
HMS Hardy (H87)
…patrolled Spanish waters from 1937 through 1939 during the Spanish Civil War enforcing the policies of the Non-Intervention Committee. After the destroyer HMS Hunter struck a mine off Almeria on 13 May 1937, Hardy stood by in case Hunter needed further assistance. Hardy was berthed in Palma, Majorca, on 23 May 1937…
HMS Hunter FL10190
Spanish Nationalist E-boat Requeté
German tanker Jan Wellem with a sunk merchant vessel to the right, after the foray of the British destroyers into the fjord of Narvik
Two of the casualties of the sinking of HMS Hunter, both identified, are interred at the Commonwealth War Graves section of Håkvik cemetery in Narvik, alongside 32 unidentified casualties from HMS Hardy