High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Highlander was classed as an H class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She had originally been built for the Brazilian Navy but was bought by Britain on the outbreak of the Second World War. She resembled the standard destroyers of H class but displaced 1,400 tons and was completed with extra depth charge stowage in the intended "Y" gun position. Highlander and HMS Harvester sank U-U-32 in October, 1940. In 1942/43 Highlander was modified further as an anti-submarine escort, with her "A" gun being replaced with a hedgehog and the director removed. Highlander was broken up in 1946.