HMS Javelin (F61)(G61)
Navy: | Royal Navy |
Type: | Destroyer |
Class: | J |
Pennant: | F 61 / G61 |
Built by: | John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) |
Ordered: | 25 Mar, 1937 |
Laid down: | 11 Oct, 1937 |
Launched: | 21 Dec, 1938 |
Commissioned: | 10 Jun, 1939 |
History: | |
Sold to be
broken up for scrap on 11 June 1949 and scrapped at Troon, Scotland.
The ships bell belonging to HMS Javelin is presently hung at the Royal Canadian Legion Building Branch 29 in Burin, Newfoundland, Canada. |
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Former name: | HMS Kashmir |