# Talk:HMS Hesperus (H57)

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Reviewer: Ed! (talk · contribs) 21:26, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Dabs and links look good.
Officers and enlisted men, per before.
"The ship was purchased on 5 September 1939 and was purchased by the British on 5 September 1939 after the beginning of World War II.[11]"
Damn copy paste.
"Renamed HMS Hesperus, the ship was commissioned on 22 January 1940 under command of former Fleet Air Arm pilot Commander Donald Macintyre[12] Hearty was renamed Hesperus on 27 February, after the Hesperus of mythology.[13]" - something here doesn't make sense.
I don't know why my computer insists on doing what I tell it do rather than what I mean for it to do!
"Although a glancing hit, the collision was so violent that it flung the U-boat's captain and first lieutenant from the submarine's conning tower into the destroyer's motorboat." - why did the destroyer have a motorboat, and was it tied alongside the ship or was it stowed around the bow or something?
Rephrased.
Will check back soon. —Ed!(talk) 21:46, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the review.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 22:57, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Hey Sturm, in reading Rohwer's The  Critical Convoy Battles of March 1943, I came across a mention of this destroyer having had the prototype of the FH 1 model D/F installed on 12 March 1940, and the improved FH 2 model in August 1941. Thought that should be included in the article. It's on page 21. Parsecboy (talk) 14:17, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Don't have my copy of MacIntyre's "U-Boat Killer" in front of me, but it's a favorite. My recollection of MacIntyre's timeline regarding the naming of the ship is: 1)Her intended Brazilian name (MacIntyre merely calls it "unpronounceable", I believe) was assigned while she was still on the ways at Thornycrofts, prior to emergency requisitioning by, and then commissioning in, the RN. 2)She was named "Hearty" upon commissioning. 3)The name was quickly changed to "Hesperus", MacIntyre's explanation being that, as there was already an HMS "Hardy", the Admiralty felt that the phonic similarity could be confusing in action.
24.39.163.34 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 06:00, 23 December 2011 (UTC). 

That, and the fact sailors on other ships would have had a lot of fun with the previous name. DancesWithGrues (talk) 07:17, 3 July 2025 (UTC)