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HMS Havelock (H 88)

Destroyer of the Havant class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassHavant 
PennantH 88 
Built byJ.S. White & Co. (Cowes, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down31 May, 1938 
Launched16 Oct, 1939 
Commissioned10 Feb, 1940 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryRequisitioned by the Royal Navy on 4 September 1939 while being built for the Brazilian Navy. Named HMS Havelock.

Sold to be broken up for scrap on 31 October 1946.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Eric Barry Kenvyn Stevens, DSC, RN
23 January 1940 – 20 September 1940

Cdr. Earle Hathway Thomas, RN
20 September 1940 – 18 October 1942
DSC awarded on 7 February 1941

Cdr.Richard Courtenay Boyle DSC, RN
18 October 1942 - ???

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Cdr.Richard Courtenay Boyle DSC, RN
September 1943 – March 1944

Lt.Cdr. Raymond Hart, DSC and Bar, RN
March 1944 – September 1944

Lt.Cdr. H.A. Stuart-Menteth, RN
September 1944 – 15 November 1944

Cdr. John Percy de Winton Kitcat, RN
15 November 1944 - ???

HMS Havelock was in Dockyard Control during repairs/refit

Capt. Robert Alexander Currie, DSC, RN
April 1945 - June 1945

T/A/Lt.Cdr. Arthur Guyon Prideaux, RNVR
June 1945 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List 

Former nameBrazilian Jutai

Noteable events involving Havelock include:

27 Jun, 1940
HMS Havelock (Capt. E.B.K. Stevens, DSC, RN) and HMS Hurricane (Lt.Cdr. H.C. Simms, RN) also pick up 27 survivors from the Norwegian merechant Lenda that was sunk about 160 nautical miles south-west of Fastnet, Ireland in position 50º00'N, 13º24'W by gunfire from the German submarine U-47.

9 Jul, 1940
HMS Harvester (Lt.Cdr. M. Thornton, RN) and HMS Havelock (Capt. E.B.K. Stevens, DSC, RN) together pick up 35 survivors from the British merchant Aylesbury that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-43 about 200 nautcal miles south-east of Ireland in position 48º39'N, 13º33'W.

28 Sep, 1940
The British merchant Empire Ocelot is torpedoed and damaged further with gunfire south-west of Rockall in position 54º37'N, 21º30'W by the German submarine U-32. The abandoned vessel sank later in position 54º55'N, 22º06'W. HMS Havelock (Capt. E.B.K. Stevens, DSC, RN) picks up 32 survivors.

27 Nov, 1940
HMS Harvester (Lt.Cdr. M. Thornton, RN) and HMS Havelock (Lt.Cdr. E.H. Thomas, RN) both pick up a survivor from the British merchant Glenmoor that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-103 about 167 nautical miles north-west of Sylne Head in position 54º35'N, 14º31'W.

3 Apr, 1941
HMS Havelock (Cdr. E.H. Thomas, DSC, RN) picks up 20 survivors from the British tanker British Viscount that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-73 in the North Atlantic, south-south-west of Iceland, in position 58º15'N, 27º30'W.

8 Jan, 1943
The British tanker Oltenia II is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-436 south-west of the Canary Islands in position 27º59'N, 28º50'W. HMS Havelock (Cdr. R.C. Boyle DSC, RN) later picks up 43 survivors.

HMS Havelock also picks up 42 survivors from the Norwegian tanker Albert L. Ellsworth. that was torpedoed and damaged in the same attack of U-436. The wreck of the Albert L. Ellsworth was sunk the next day by gunfire from U-436.

9 Jan, 1943
HMS Havelock (Cdr. R.C. Boyle DSC, RN) picks up 38 survivors from the Norwegian tanker Minister Wedel that was torpedoed and sunk east of the Canary Islands in position 28º08'N, 28º20'W by the German submarine U-522.

18 Jun, 1944
The German submarine U-767 was sunk in the English Channel south-west of Guernsey, in position 49º03'N, 03º13'W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Fame, HMS Inconstant and HMS Havelock. (see map)


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