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HMS Kingston

Scuba Diving in Malta is considered the best diving in the Mediterranean and it's easy too. The Maltese islands are blessed with warm temperatures, even in winter, clear, unpolluted seas, with visibility underwater in excess of thirty metres. Hundreds of kilometres of coastline, many of which are still unexplored, make the Maltese archipelago a favourite with adventurous divers.

HMS Kingston (F64) was a K-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at Cowes on the Isle of Wight on 6 October 1937, launched on 9 January 1939 and commissioned on 14 September 1939. Kingston was involved in the evacuation of Greece in April 1941, and attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-35 in the North Sea on 29 November 1939 in company with the destroyers Kashmir and Icarus. HMS Kingston took part in the Second Battle of Sirte, in March, 1942 where she was hit by a 15" shell fired by the Italian battleship "Vittorio Veneto". Whist in dry dock at Malta repairing damage from this encounter, Kingston was attacked by German aircraft while on 11 April 1942 and damaged beyond repair.

The HMS Kingston was scuttled in the channel between St. Paul’s Islands and St. Paul’s Bay to block submarines from accessing the shore.

HMS KINGSTON

General characteristics

Displacement
standard: 1,760 tons,
full load: 2,555 tons
Length: 356 ft (108.66 m)
Beam: 35 ft 8 inch (10.87 m)
Draught: 13 ft 10 inch, (4.22m)
Machinery: 2 boilers, 2 shaft geared turbines, 40,000 hp
Speed: 36 knots
Armament:
Six 4.7 inch guns (3x2),
One quadruple 2-pdr pom-pom mount
Two quintuple mount 21-inch torpedo tubes
Crew: 183-218

The J and K class was a class of sixteen destroyer escorts of the Royal Navy launched in 1938. They were heavy torpedo destroyers, designed to be cheaper than the destroyers of the Tribal class.
They served in World War II, many in the Mediterranean where they were involved in several engagements against Italian warships and sank many merchant vessels. Eleven of the sixteen ships of the class were sunk in action, from a mixture of dive bombers, torpedo planes, U-boats and mines. The flag superior of their pennant numbers changed from F to G in 1940.