Havelock in camouflage
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History | |
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Brazil | |
Name | Jutahy |
Ordered | 8 December 1937 |
Builder | J. Samuel White, Cowes |
Laid down | 30 March 1938 |
Fate | Purchased by the United Kingdom, 5 September 1939 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Havelock |
Launched | 16 October 1939 |
Acquired | 5 September 1939 |
Commissioned | 10 February 1940 |
Identification | Pennant number: H88[1] |
Fate | Scrapped, 31 October 1946 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Brazilian H-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 323 ft (98.5 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
Draught | 12 ft 5 in (3.8 m) |
Installed power | 34,000 shp (25,000 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 5,530 nmi (10,240 km; 6,360 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 152 |
Sensors and processing systems | ASDIC |
Armament |
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HMS Havelock was an H-class destroyer that had originally been ordered by the Brazilian Navy with the name Jutahy in the late 1930s, but was bought by the Royal Navy after the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939 and later renamed. She participated in the Norwegian Campaign in May 1940 and was assigned to convoy escort and anti-submarine patrols with the Western Approaches Command afterwards. The ship was briefly assigned to Force H in 1941, but her anti-aircraft armament was deemed too weak and she rejoined Western Approaches Command. Havelock became flotilla leader of Escort Group B-5 of the Mid-Ocean Escort Force in early 1942 and continued to escort convoys in the North Atlantic for the next two years. The ship was converted to an escort destroyer and sank one submarine during the war. After the end of the war, she escorted the ships carrying the Norwegian government in exile back to Norway and served as a target ship through mid-1946. Havelock was scrapped beginning in late 1946.