HMS Havelock (H88)

**Havelock**
	The sister ship Havant, also built by White
Ship data
flag	( Brazil ) United Kingdom ;
other ship names	( Jutahy )
Ship type	destroyer
class	H class, Javary type
Shipyard	J. Samuel White , Cowes
Order	December 8, 1937
Keel laying	May 31, 1938
Launch	October 16, 1939
Commissioning	February 10, 1940
Whereabouts	from November 1946 demolition
Ship dimensions and crew
length	98.5 m ( Lüa ) 95.1 m ( Lpp )
width	10.1 m
Draft	Max. 3.89 m
displacement	Standard : 1,400 ts; maximum: 1,930 ts
crew	145 men
Machine system
machine	3 Admirality 3-drum steam boiler; 2 Parsons turbines with single gear
Machine ; performance	34,000 PS (25,007 kW)
Top ; speed	36 kn (67 km / h)
propeller	2
Armament
	3 - 120mm L / 45 Mk.IX guns ; 2 × 4 - 12.7-mm - Fla - MG ; 2 × 4 - torpedo tubes Ø 533 mm; 110 depth charges , ; 4 launchers, 2 dropping frames; last 2 - 120 mm L / 45 Mk.IX / XVIII guns ; 1 - 76mm L / 45 Mk.II Flak ; 4 - 20 mm L / 70 Oerlikon cannons ; 1 × 24f.- Hedgehog thrower ; 110 depth charges , ; 4 launchers, 2 dropping frames;
Sensors
	Type 128 sonar

HMS Havelock (H88) was an H-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy during World War II . The ship under construction for the Brazilian Navy was purchased by Great Britain immediately after the start of the war, along with its five sister ships. During the Second World War, the ship was awarded the Battle Honors "Norway 1940", "Atlantic 1940-45", "Biscay 1943", "English Channel 1944" and "Normandy 1944".

history

HMS Havelock was ordered by Brazil on December 8, 1937 from J. Samuel White in Cowes , Isle of Wight . A total of two destroyers each ordered from the White, Thornycroft and Vickers shipyards in Barrow based on the British H-Class model . The keel-laying of the destroyer, which was to be named Jutahy , took place on May 31, 1938. On September 4, 1939, i.e. immediately after the start of the war, Great Britain acquired the six destroyers under construction, of which only two had been launched: the type ship Javary near White on July 17, 1939 and the first Thornycroft construction on Juruena on August 1st. The second destroyer under construction at White was named Havelock after a monitor of the Abercrombie class used in World War I or after General Henry Havelock (1795-1857). It was launched on October 16, 1939. It entered service on February 10, 1940.

The destroyer was together with his former Brazilian sister ships of the 9th destroyer flotilla assigned and acted as their flotilla. The ship's first war mission was the evacuation of the Allied troops from Norway after the failed attempts to throw back the landed German troops ( Operation Weser Exercise ). In June 1940, HMS Havelock was used together with many other ships in the evacuation of the Allied troops that had been cut off in northern France.

In the period that followed, the ship was assigned escort groups that escorted convoys . On November 8, 1940, the Italian submarine Faà di Bruno was sunk west of Scotland .

In May 1941 HMS Havelock was used in a heavily secured convoy in the Mediterranean, which served to supply the besieged island of Malta . Otherwise, the area of operation of the ship was for a long time in the North Atlantic . HMS Havelock served as the lead ship of one of the escort groups, which consisted of a few, mostly older destroyers and several corvettes , later also partly a frigate . The anti -submarine and anti-aircraft armament was reinforced over time at the expense of the main guns and a torpedo tube set.

The destroyer and its escort group were deployed in the Caribbean in the spring of 1942 to cover the local escorts there. After further North Atlantic convoys, a time followed in the summer when the group was assigned to free submarine hunts in the Bay of Biscay . In the period from autumn 1943 to spring 1944, the escort group led by HMS Havelock was deployed on the route between Great Britain and Gibraltar .

Until the end of the war, the main focus of operations was in the English Channel and the Biscay, where the destroyer was hunting German submarines. Shortly after the start of Operation Overlord , he succeeded, together with the destroyers HMS Fame and HMS Inconstant , in sinking the submarine U 767, equipped with a snorkel mast , southwest of Guernsey .

After the fighting ended, HMS Havelock was sold for scrapping in October 1946 .

literature

MJ Whitley: Destroyers of World War Two. Arms and Armor Press, London 1988, ISBN 0-85368-910-5 .

HMS Havelock (H88)

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