HMS Jupiter

HMS Jupiter (F-85) was a J class destroyer laid down by the Yarrow Shipbuilding Company, Limited, at Scotstoun in Glasgow on 28 September 1937, launched on 27 October 1938 and commissioned on 25 June 1939. HMS Jupiter, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Norman V. J. T. Thew, RN, struck a mine as she steamed with the Australian/British/Dutch/American (ABDA) cruiser force during the Battle of the Java Sea and sank off the north Java coast in the Java Sea on 28 February 1942.