Built as a destroyer under yard No 1837 by J Samuel White, East Cowes, Isle of Wight for the Royal Navy.
20 September 1937 keel laid down.
26 September 1938 launched as the HMS JERSEY (F72) one of the Javelin class. She was the 6th ship in the Royal Navy that carried the name JERSEY.
Displacement 1,690 tons standard, 2,330 tons full load. Dim. 108.7 x 10.9 x 2.74m (draught), length bpp. 103.5m.
Powered by two Parson geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp, twin shafts, speed 35 knots.
Range by a speed of 15 knots, 5,500 mile.
Armament: 6 – 4.7 inch semi automatic quick firing and 4 – 2pdr quick firing guns, 8 – 0.5 inch Vickers quad mount Mk.III and 10 - 21 inch (2x5) torpedo tubes
Crew 138.
28 April 1939 commissioned.
After commissioned she joined the 7th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet.
After a work-up period she sailed for the Channel Island Jersey and visited the island on 10th July 1939 before returning to Portsmouth.
In August she joined the Home Fleet in Scape Flow.
After the outbreak of World War II she intercepted with other vessels of the Royal Navy German vessels off the Norwegian Coast.
She was the first ship during World War II who took enemy prisoners on board when she intercepted the German ship JOHANNES MOLKENBUR on 4 September 1939 east of the Orkney’s, the German crew scuttled the vessel when sighted.
She landed enemy personnel of the JOHANNES MOLKENBUR in Kirkwall.
Then she joined the Humber Force at Immingham and used as escort of larger Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
22 September 1939 in collision with her sister the HMS JAVELIN, and she sailed for Leith for repair where the repair were finished on 09 October.
The rest of the year on duty in the North Sea.
07 December 1939 in auction against the German warships HANS LODY and ERICH GEISE, she was hit by an enemy torpedo near Haisborough Light. She got on fire and was extensive damaged.
10 Crew lost their lives and 13 were wounded.
She was towed to Humber Graving Dock for temporary repair.
07 January 1939 was taken to Amos & Smith shipyard in Hull for repair.
From February till September under repair at Hull, then again in service, North Sea and English Channel.
January 1941 transferred to Greenock for convoy defence in NW Approaches of Northern Ireland and the west Scottish coast.
18 January 1941 sailed for the Mediterranean.
After arrival mostly used as escort for Royal Navy warships in attacks against Italy.
March 1941returned to U.K. for repairs, was repaired at Portsmouth.
After repair deployed in the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay.
End of April 1941 sailed again for the Mediterranean where she joined a Malta convoy.
28 April 1941 arrived at Malta and joined the Force K for interception of enemy supply traffic between Italy and North Africa.
02 May as a unit of Force K she entered Malta under command of A.F.Burnell-Nugent and hit a mine in the entrance of Grand Harbour which was dropt there the previous night by enemy airplanes.
It took only two minutes to sink in the entrance with the loss of 35 men.
After two days the wreck broke in half and she blocked the harbour for a few days until the forward part was removed.
The after section of the wreck was removed in 1946.
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Source: http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono ... Jersey.htm Internet.
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