HMS Havock: Shipwreck Map, Location & Facts

Name	HMS Havock	Wikidata label
Ship type	destroyer	Wikidata P31 instance of
Cause of loss	Grounding or wreck on rocks	Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence
Nationality / flag	United Kingdom	Wikidata P137 operator → P17 country
Operator	Royal Navy	Wikidata P137 operator
Conflict	Norwegian Campaign	Wikidata P607 conflict
Sea / ocean	Mediterranean Sea	Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon
Nearest coast	Tunisia	Natural Earth (public domain); approx. 1 km from land
Position	36.8717, 11.1400	Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0)

About the wreck

HMS Havock was an H-class destroyer built for the British Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, the ship enforced the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides as part of the Mediterranean Fleet. During the first few months of the Second World War, Havock searched for German commerce raiders in the Atlantic Ocean and participated in the First Battle of Narvik during the Norwegian Campaign of April–June 1940 before she was transferred back to the Mediterranean Fleet in May where she escorted a number of convoys to Malta. The ship took part in the Battle of Cape Spada in July 1940, the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941 and the evacuation of Greece in April 1941. She was damaged during the Battle of Crete the following month, but participated in the Syria–Lebanon Campaign in June.

Havock began escorting supply convoys in June to Tobruk, Libya until the ship was damaged in October. She was repaired in time to escort a convoy to Malta during the First Battle of Sirte in December and was badly damaged by the Italian battleship Littorio whilst protecting another convoy during the Second Battle of Sirte in March 1942.

Location

Recorded position: 36.8717, 11.1400 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
Sea / ocean: Mediterranean Sea
Nearest coast: Tunisia

Wreck positions on this site are for interest only and are not for navigation. Many wrecks are war graves or legally protected: never disturb human remains or remove artefacts, and check local law before diving.

OpenStreetMap

Text adapted from the Wikipedia article HMS Havock (H43) (revision 1375234573), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs and trimming at sentence boundaries; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.