HMS Hurricane was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 Havant class

G and H class destroyer

The G- and H-class destroyers were a class of twenty-four destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1935–1939. They served in World War II and sixteen were lost, with a seventeenth being written off as a constructive total loss...

 destroyer

Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

 built by Vickers Armstrong. Hurricane was launched on 29 September 1939 and sunk by U-415

German submarine U-415

German submarine U-415 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. She was commissioned on 5 August 1942 and completed eight war patrols before being sunk by a mine on 14 July 1944....

 on 24 December 1943 with Cdr. Charles Edward Eustace Paterson, RN as commander. The Hurricane sunk north-east of Azores

Azores

The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...

 in position 45º10'N, 22º05'W. Hurricane had been involved in rescuing survivors following the sinking of the SS City of Benares

SS City of Benares

SS City of Benares was a steam passenger ship built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936. During the Second World War the City of Benares was used as an evacuee ship to evacuate 90 children from Britain to Canada. The ship was purposefully targeted and torpedoed by the ...

 in 1940, a ship which had been transporting children from Britain to Canada.

The ship had previously been bombed and sunk in a German air raid on Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

during the night of 7/8 May 1941. It was raised, repaired and returned to service in January 1942. http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4410.html

The ship was formerly named the Brazilian Japarua. http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4410.html