HMS Highlander (H44)

Aerial view of Highlander
History
Brazil
Name	Jaguaribe
Ordered	16 December 1937
Builder	John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston
Laid down	28 September 1938
Fate	Purchased by the United Kingdom, 5 September 1939
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Highlander
Launched	19 October 1939
Acquired	5 September 1939
Commissioned	18 March 1940
Identification	Pennant number: H44[1]
Fate	Sold for scrap, 27 May 1946
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Brazilian H-class destroyer
Displacement	1,350 long tons (1,370 t) (standard) 1,883 long tons (1,913 t) (deep load)
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	2 shafts Parsons geared steam turbines 3 Admiralty water-tube boilers
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	3 × 1 - QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns 2 × 4 - .50 cal machine guns 2 × 4 - 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 110 × depth charges, 3 rails and 8 throwers

HMS Highlander was an H-class destroyer that had originally been ordered by the Brazilian Navy with the name Jaguaribe in the late 1930s, but was bought by the Royal Navy after the beginning of World War II in September 1939 and later renamed. When completed in March 1940, she was assigned to the 9th Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet. The ship was assigned to convoy escort duties in June with the Western Approaches Command, sinking one German submarine in October. Highlander was transferred to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in mid-1941 to escort convoys off West Africa, but returned to the United Kingdom in August. She became flotilla leader of Escort Group B-4 of the Mid-Ocean Escort Force in early 1942 and continued to escort convoys in the North Atlantic for the rest of the war. The ship became a target ship after the war ended and was sold for scrap in mid-1946.