Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer F61

HMS Javelin

J-class destroyer

HMS Javelin
Devonport Dockyard Constructive Department — This photograph FL 10524 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — F61 Photograph of British destroyer HMS Javelin .

Service

  1. Royal Navy as Javelin10 June 1939 — 11 June 19492,193 days of the war
J-class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS Javelin
Pennant / hull number
F61
Builder
John Brown and Company
Laid down
11 October 1937
Launched
21 December 1938
Commissioned
10 June 1939
Fate
Sold for scrap, 11 June 1949 (1949)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,690 long tons (1,717 t)
Displacement, full load
2,330 long tons (2,367 t)
Length
108.51 m (356 ft) OA
Beam
10.67 m (35 ft)
Draught
3.66 m (12 ft)
Speed
36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
Range
5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
Complement
183
Main gun
120 mm (4.7 in)

HMS Javelin was a J-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number F61. John Brown and Company laid her keel on 11 October 1937. Launched on 21 December 1938, she entered service on 10 June 1939.

She was one of eight ships of her class. The class followed the Tribal-class destroyer and was succeeded by the L and M-class destroyer.

Displacement was 1,690 long tons standard and 2,330 long tons at full load. She measured 108.5 m (356 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 183.

Her main battery was six 119 mm (4.7 in) guns in three twin mountings. Her machinery developed 44,000 shp.

She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap on 11 June 1949.

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; 2 × geared steam turbines
Power
  • 44000 shp
  • 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Armament
  • 3 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
  • 1 × quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
  • 2 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) anti-aircraft machineguns
  • 2 × quintuple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Javelin on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Devonport Dockyard Constructive Department — This photograph FL 10524 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons