Royal Navy — Destroyer class
A-class destroyer (1929)
A and B class
The class in numbers
- 20 Completed
- 10 Lost
- 10 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navies
- Royal Navy 9
Royal Canadian Navy 2 - Built
- 1928–1931
- Preceded by
- HMS Ambuscade (D38) and HMS Amazon (D39)
- Succeeded by
- C and D-class destroyer
- Operators
- Canada
- Subclasses
- A, B
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,360 long tons (1,382 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,790 long tons (1,819 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft) OA
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 138
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 2 × single 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Saguenay and Skeena (where different
- Displacement, standard
- 1,337 long tons (1,358 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,805 long tons (1,834 t)
- Length
- 97.84 m (321 ft) OA
Codrington (A class flotilla leader
- Displacement, standard
- 1,540 long tons (1,565 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,012 long tons (2,044 t)
- Length
- 104.55 m (343 ft) OA
- Complement
- 185
- Main gun
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 5 × single 4.7 in guns
Keith (B class flotilla leader
- Displacement, standard
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,821 long tons (1,850 t)
- Complement
- 157
Roster
Holding 11 of the 20 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMCS Saguenay (D79) | D79 | 1931 | |
| HMCS Skeena (D59) | D59 | 1931 | Wrecked 1944 |
| HMS Acasta (H09) | H09 | 1930 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Achates (H12) | H12 | 1930 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMS Acheron (H45) | H45 | 1931 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Active (H14) | H14 | 1930 | Scrapped 1947 |
| HMS Antelope (H36) | H36 | 1930 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Anthony (H40) | H40 | 1930 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Ardent (H41) | H41 | 1930 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Arrow (H42) | H42 | 1930 | Sunk 1943 |
| HMS Codrington | 1930 | Sunk 1940 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from A-class destroyer (1929) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.