HMS Havelock (H88)

Havelock in camouflage
History
Brazil
NameJutahy
Ordered8 December 1937
BuilderJ. Samuel White, Cowes
Laid down30 March 1938
FatePurchased by the United Kingdom, 5 September 1939
United Kingdom
NameHMS Havelock
Launched16 October 1939
Acquired5 September 1939
Commissioned10 February 1940
IdentificationPennant number: H88[1]
FateScrapped, 31 October 1946
General characteristics (as built)
Class and typeBrazilian H-class destroyer
Displacement
Length323 ft (98.5 m)
Beam33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught12 ft 5 in (3.8 m)
Installed power34,000 shp (25,000 kW)
Propulsion
Speed36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range5,530 nmi (10,240 km; 6,360 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement152
Sensors and
processing systems
ASDIC
Armament

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.

  1. ^ Whitley, p. 112