HMS Jupiter

HMS Jupiter at sea as part of the 7th Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet in early 1941 before being deployed to the Mediterranean and then onto the Far East.

On November 29th 1941, Jupiter and the destroyer Encounter detached from the Mediterranean Fleet joined up with Force G at Colombo, and the five ships sailed later that day. They rendezvoused with the battlecruiser Repulseat sea and set course for Singapore, where they arrived on December 2nd.

Jupiter sank the Japanese submarine I-60 on January 17th 1942. On February 27th 1942 she struck a mine laid earlier in the day by the Dutch minelayer Gouden Leeuw as she steamed with the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDA) cruiser force during the Battle of the Java Sea. The destroyer sank off the north Java coast in the Java Sea at 21:16 hours. Initially, the explosion was thought to have been caused by a Japanese torpedo.