HMS Havant H32
Navy: | Royal Navy |
Type: | Destroyer |
Class: | Havant |
Pennant: | H 32 |
Built by: | J. S. White & Co. (Cowes, U.K.) |
Laid down: | 30 Mar, 1938 |
Launched: | 17 Jul, 1939 |
Commissioned: | 19 Dec, 1939 |
Complement: | 145 |
Lost: | 1 Jun, 1940 (Lt. Cdr. A. F. Burnell-Nugent, RN.) was heavily damaged by German aircraft off Dunkirk during the evacutation there. Sunk by the minesweeper HMS Saltash. |
History: | Requisitioned by the Royal Navy on
4 September 1939 while being built for the Brazilian Navy. Named HMS
Havant.
HMS Havant |
Former name: | Brazilian Javary |