H.M.S. Hero, one of eight improved G-Class Destroyers to be launched in 1936, enjoyed a busy and distinguished 'fighting' career in the Second World War, notching up an extraordinary tally of 10 Battle Honours prior to being transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in November 1943. No less than four of these were won in the course of 1940, namely those for Narvik, Norway, Spada and Calabria. In the following year she added 'Crete', 'Greece' and 'The Mediterranean' to her honours, and in 1942 'Libya', 'Malta Convoys' and 'Sirte'. An indication of just how hard won such honours were is evidenced by a very simple fact - of her eight sister ships launched in 1936, six had been lost to enemy action by the middle of 1942. For her own part, Hero participated in the Second Battle of Narvik, which resulted in the destruction of eight enemy Destroyers. Back in the Mediterranean, she fought in Fleet actions, the evacuation of Crete and in a number of Malta Convoys, thereby contributing to the Flotilla's total Mediterranean score of three Italian Submarines, three U-Boats and three Italian Destroyers.