Jupiter was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, pennant F85. Yarrow built her at Scotstoun. Her keel was laid on 20 September 1937, she was launched on 27 October 1938, and she was commissioned on 16 June 1939. Lieutenant Commander Norman Vivian Joseph Thompson Thew had her in the Java Sea.
On the afternoon of 27 February 1942 she and Electra fired ranging salvos at the Japanese van. She was still afloat when the daylight fight ended.
After dark she was the last ship in Rear Admiral Karel Doorman's column. At about 2125 an explosion stopped her on the starboard side, abreast the engine room, off the north coast of Java. The place is given as 6 degrees 45 minutes south, 112 degrees 5.5 minutes east. Her crew thought a torpedo had hit her. No submarine was seen, and no torpedo track was seen. Later accounts say she struck a Dutch mine.
She sank at about 0130 on 28 February. Most of her men got ashore on the north coast of Java. Thew survived and was taken prisoner.