HMS Hyperion
HMS Hyperion (H 97), a destroyer of the H class in the Royal Navy, is named after the Greek mythological character Hyperion.
It was laid down by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited at Wallsend-on-Tyne on 26 March 1935, launched on 8 April 1936 and commissioned on 3 December 1936. In World War II, the Hyperion participated in the Battle of Calabria and the Battle of Cape Spada on April 19, 1940.
HMS Hyperion struck a mine as she escorted the battleship HMS Malaya from Alexandria to Gibraltar and sank off Pantelleria Island east of Cape Bon in the Strait of Sicily on 22 December 1940.
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