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Shinhwalee wrote: Could it be HMS Jervis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Jervis Lucky Jervis Jervis had a reputation as a lucky ship (again in contrast to her sister, Kelly, who seemed to have more than her share of bad luck). Despite a long and active career, in 5½ years of war and 13 major actions, not one of her crew was lost to enemy action, possibly a unique record. An example of her luck might be seen in her action at Anzio in January 1944. Supporting the landing with gunfire, Jervis and her sister ship, Janus, were attacked by enemy aircraft using Henschel Hs 293 glider bombs. Both were hit; Janus’ forward magazine exploded, sinking her with the loss of nearly 160 of her crew; Jervis’ bow was blown off, leaving her to be towed stern-first to safety. Astonishingly, not one of her crew was harmed in this incident, and she was able to rescue over 80 of Janus’ crew. While many RN destroyers could be considered lucky, not that many are described as "lucky" (in english) on Japanese wikipedia, so I'd say fair chance. If it's really her, then it's quite good choice: great luck, strong torpedoes (2x quint, even if British torpedoes were inferior to Japanese oxy, is still quite good), decent ASW. Personally I was hoping for Electra, but I'm not disappointed.

Fun Fact Time (not so fun this time):

On 1st December 1941 commanding officer of HMS Jaguar Lt.Cdr. John Franklin William Hine was killed along two other crewmen by shell accidentally fired from... yeah, HMS Jervis. That's some luck alright! I'm not sure how it's even possible without serious breach of safety protocols and we are unlikely to know what exactly happened (official report says something about cleaning hot barrel) given RN tendency to hush up any fuckups, but if fandom gets to this story she's gonna get portrayal either as a trigger-happy airhead or straight-up yandere. I mean, she has shot dead her sister's commander!