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Dates: 1939 - 1945 HMS Javelin (Pennant number F61) was a J-class destroyer built by John Brown & Co. at Clydebank, Scotland and commissioned on 10 June 1939. Complement: 183. She participated in the Dunkirk evacuation At the end of November 1941, the 5th Destroyer Flotilla was based at Plymouth. The flotilla engaged 3 German destroyers. Javelin was badly damaged by torpedoes and shells from the German destroyers and lost both her bow and stern. 3 officers and 43 ratings were killed. Only 155 feet of Javelin’s original 353 foot length remained afloat and she was towed back to harbour. Javelin was out of action for almost a year. Javelin participated in the Operation Ironclad assault on Madagascar in May 1942. She participated in the failed Operation Vigorous attempt to deliver a supply convoy to Malta, in June 1942. Thereafter she was with the Eastern Mediterranean Fleet and intercepted Axis convoys and undertook coastal bombardment. HMS Javelin was decommissioned in July 1946 and subsequently broken up at Troon in Ayrshire.
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