HMS Havelock (H88)

Havelock in camouflage
History
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	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 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.