HMS Highlander (H44)
Brazilian H-class destroyer
Service
- as Jaguaribe? — 5 September 19394 days of the war
- as HMS Highlander18 March 1940 — 27 May 19461,994 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Highlander
- Pennant / hull number
- H44
- Builder
- John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston
- Ordered
- 16 December 1937
- Laid down
- 28 September 1938
- Launched
- 19 October 1939
- Commissioned
- 18 March 1940
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 27 May 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,883 long tons (1,913 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft)
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,530 nmi (10,242 km)
- Complement
- 152
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Highlander was a Brazilian H-class destroyer in service with the Brazilian Navy. She carried the pennant number H44. Her keel was laid at John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston on 28 September 1938. She entered service on 18 March 1940, having been launched on 19 October 1939.
Displacement was 1,350 long tons standard and 1,883 long tons at full load. She measured 98.5 m (323 ft) long with a beam of 10.1 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 152. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
34,000 shp drove two shafts.
She served with the Brazilian Navy as Jaguaribe until 5 September 1939. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Highlander from 18 March 1940. She was in commission for 1,998 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 27 May 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts
- Parsons geared steam turbines
- 3 Admiralty water-tube boilers
- Power
- 34000 shp
- 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
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Highlander (H44) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 1984 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons