HMS Jutland (D62) the disposal list and broken up at Faslane in 1965. HMS Jutland (D62) HMS "Jutland" (D62) was a later or 1943 fleet destroyer of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. She was named after the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the First World War. The first "Jutland" was launched in 1945, but was cancelled that same year. Her sister ship, "Malplaquet" - named after a battle between Britain and France during the War of the Spanish Succession in 1709 - was renamed "Jutland" just prior to her launch on 20 February 1946, and was commissioned on 30 July
Battle of Jutland how accurate the "Harper Record" actually was. On the 90th anniversary of the battle, in 2006, the UK Ministry of Defence belatedly announced that the 14 British vessels lost in the battle were being designated as "protected places" under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986. This legislation only affects British ships and citizens and in practical terms offers no real protection from non-British salvors of the wreck sites. In May 2016 a number of British newspapers named the Dutch salvage company "Friendship Offshore" as one of the main salvors of the Jutland wrecks in recent years and depicted leaked