Navy:

Royal Navy

Type:

Destroyer

Class:

Hunt (Type I) 

Pennant:

L 78 

Built by:

Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd. (Scotstoun, Scotland) 

Laid down:

12 Dec, 1939 

Launched:

5 Sep, 1940 

Commissioned:

29 Dec, 1940 

Named after a Hunt in Rutland, the smallest English county.
Second ship with this name in the Royal Navy.

Battle Honours: North Sea 1941-1945, English Channel 1942-1944 and Normandy 1944.

Sold to the Egyptian Navy on 17 September 1950 and renamed Ibrahim El-Awal.
Renamed Mohamed Ali-El-Kebir in 1951.
Became the Israeli Haifa in 1956.