HMS Hursley (L84) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Hursley (L84) was a Second World War type 2 Hunt class escort destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She is the only Royal Navy ship to have carried this name. Hursley is a village in Hampshire. With HMS Pakenham she sank the Italian submarine Narvalo near Malta on 14 January 1943. The submarine was returning on a mission resupplying forces in North Africa and was carrying 11 British prisoners of war. 28 Italians and 8 of the prisoners died in the sinking.