Two ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were foug ...
have carried the name HMS ''Harvester'':
* was a minesweeping
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular ...
launched 1918, sold for breaking up 1922.
* was a
H-class destroyer
The G- and H-class destroyers were a group of 18 destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Six additional ships being built for the Brazilian Navy when World War II began in 1939 were purchased by the British and named the ''Havant ...
ordered by the Brazilian navy as ''Jurua'', purchased by the British before launch, launched as HMS ''Handy'' September 1939, renamed ''Harvester'' January 1940, sunk 1943.
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Royal Navy ship names