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Javelin was badly damaged by gunfire and torpedoes fired by the German destroyers, losing both her bow and her stern. Only 155 feet (47 m) of Javelin ' s original 353 ft (108 m) length remained afloat and she was towed back to harbour. Javelin was out of action for almost a year. A total of 45 officers and ratings were killed in this action.
Name Builder Laid down Launched Completed Fate Kelly [a] Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn: 26 August 1937 25 October 1938 23 August 1939 Sunk by German aircraft, 23 May 1941 Kandahar: William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton: 18 January 1938 21 March 1939 10 October 1939 Mined off Tripoli, 19 December 1941, and later scuttled Kashmir (ex-Javelin)
Erebus officers and Captain Francis Crozier. Top row left to right: Lt. Edward Couch (mate); James Walter Fairholme; Charles Hamilton Osmer (Purser); Charles Frederick Des Voeux (2nd Mate). 2nd row from top Left to right: Francis Crozier (HMS Terror); Sir John Franklin; James Fitzjames. 3rd row from top left to right: Graham Gore (Commander); Stephen Samuel Stanley (Surgeon); 2nd Lt. Henry ...
This is an alphabetical list of the names of all ships that have been in service with the Royal Navy, or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England or the Commonwealth of England. The list also includes fictional vessels which have prominently featured in literature about the Royal Navy.
A twin Mk.XII mounting on HMS Javelin Although the design was rejected for the fleet cruiser role, [ 1 ] by August 1935, after no less than eight design proposals, it had evolved to present a destroyer with eight 4.7 inch Quick Firing Mark XII guns, in four twin mountings, with a maximum elevation of 40°, [ 2 ] controlled by a low-angle (LA ...
1 Fiji-class (12 × 6-inch main btty, 31.25 kn): HMS Jamaica 1 Southampton-class (12 × 6-inch main btty, 32 kn): HMS Sheffield 9 destroyers 5 V-class: HMS Virago, HMS Verulam, HMS Vigilant, HMCS Algonquin, HMCS Sioux 1 W-class: HMS Wakeful 1 S-class: HMS Swift 1 O-class: HMS Onslaught 1 N-class: ORP Piorun 1 J-class: HMS Javelin
List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1940 Ship State Description Gorspen United Kingdom World War II: The fishing trawler was bombed and sunk in the North Sea 20 nautical miles (37 km) east by south of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands by a Heinkel He 111 aircraft of Kampfgeschwader 26, Luftwaffe and was abandoned by her crew.
HMS Janus, named after the Roman god, was a Javelin or J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.She was ordered from the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited at Wallsend-on-Tyne as part of the 1936 Build Programme and laid down on 29 September 1937, launched on 10 November 1938 and commissioned on 5 August 1939.