HMS Hostile (1940): Shipwreck Map, Location & Facts

Name	HMS Hostile	Wikidata label
Year lost	1940	Wikidata P793 significant event, point-in-time qualifier
Era	Second World War	derived from year
Ship type	destroyer	Wikidata P31 instance of
Cause of loss	Scuttled	Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence
Nationality / flag	United Kingdom	Wikidata P8047 country of registry
Operator	Royal Navy	Wikidata P137 operator
Conflict	Norwegian Campaign	Wikidata P607 conflict
Sea / ocean	Mediterranean Sea	Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon
Nearest coast	Tunisia	Natural Earth (public domain); approx. 17 km from land
Position	36.8833, 11.3167	Wikidata P793 significant event, coordinate qualifier (CC0)

About the wreck

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.

Location

Recorded position: 36.8833, 11.3167 (Wikidata P793 significant event, coordinate qualifier (CC0); may be approximate)
Sea / ocean: Mediterranean Sea
Nearest coast: Tunisia

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OpenStreetMap

Text adapted from the Wikipedia article HMS Hostile (revision 1375234791), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.