HMS Highlander

HMS Highlander was an H-class destroyer that had originally been ordered by the Brazilian Navy with the name Jaguaribe in the late 1930s, but was bought by the Royal Navy after the beginning of World War II in September 1939 and later renamed. When completed in March 1940, she was assigned to the 9th Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet. The ship was assigned to convoy escort duties in June with the Western Approaches Command, sinking one German submarine in October. Highlander was transferred to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in mid-1941 to escort convoys off West Africa, but returned to the United Kingdom in August. She became flotilla leader of Escort Group B-4 of the Mid-Ocean Escort Force in early 1942 and continued to escort convoys in the North Atlantic for the rest of the war. The ship became a target ship after the war ended and was sold for scrap in mid-1946.

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H44
speed 36 knot, length 98.5 metre, beam 10.1 metre, draft 3.89 metre, 
destroyer, G and H-class destroyer, Royal Navy, John I. Thornycroft & Company, 

• Dreadnought Project page^@
• naval-history.net page^@
• uboat.net page^@
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1940 HMS Highlander

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World War II Q362

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keel laying

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ship commissioning

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ship launching

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Frameless

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HMS Highlander(H44) (cropped)

HMS Highlander(H44)

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		Dreadnought Project page@		Wikidata
link	page		naval-history.net page@		Wikidata
link	page		uboat.net page@		Wikidata
commons	image		Ravilious - leaving-scapa-flow(1)		Commons
commons	image		HMS Highlander(H44) (cropped)		Commons
commons	image		HMS Highlander(H44)		Commons