HMS Harvester

HMS Harvester was an H-class destroyer originally ordered by the Brazilian Navy with the name Jurua in the late 1930s, but bought by the Royal Navy after the beginning of World War II in September 1939. Almost immediately after being commissioned, in May 1940, the ship began evacuating Allied troops from Dunkirk and other locations in France. Afterwards she was assigned to the Western Approaches Command for convoy escort duties. Harvester and another destroyer sank a German submarine in October. She was briefly assigned to Force H in May 1941, but her anti-aircraft armament was deemed too weak and she was transferred to the Newfoundland Escort Force in June 1941 for escort duties in the North Atlantic. The ship was returned to the Western Approaches Command in October 1941 and was converted to an escort destroyer in early 1942. Harvester was torpedoed and sunk in March 1943 by a German submarine after having rammed and sunk another submarine the previous day while escorting Convoy HX 228.

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H19; HMS Handy
length 98.5 metre, speed 36 knot, draft 3.89 metre, beam 10.1 metre, 
shipwreck, G and H-class destroyer, destroyer, Vickers-Armstrongs, Royal Navy, United Kingdom, 

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Location: 51.3833, -28.6667, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

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1940 HMS Harvester

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ship commissioning

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keel laying

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ship launching

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World War II Q362

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		Dreadnought Project page@		Wikidata
link	page		uboat.net page@		Wikidata
site	shipwreck	1940	HMS Harvester	shipwreck, G and H-class destroyer, destroyer	Wikidata