In real life, Javelin was the last of eight J-class destroyers, launched in 1938 and commissioned in 1939, in time for the start of hostilities.
She served in the Dunkirk evacuation, capture of Madagascar, and the Malta Convoys. Shortly after VJ Day, a mutiny broke out among sailors over resentment to a return to pre-war conditions (alongside Black Prince, Gangut, and Thueringen, Javelin is among the few ships in-game that historically had mutinies break out aboard).
