Royal Navy — Destroyer class
B-class destroyer
A and B class
The class in numbers
- 20 Completed
- 10 Lost
- 10 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- 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 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Basilisk (H11) | H11 | 1930 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Beagle (H30) | H30 | 1930 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Blanche (H47) | H47 | 1930 | Sunk 1939 |
| HMS Boadicea (H65) | H65 | 1930 | Sunk 1944 |
| HMS Boreas (H77) | H77 | 1944 | Scrapped 1951 |
| HMS Brazen (H80) | H80 | 1930 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Brilliant (H84) | H84 | 1930 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Bulldog (H91) | H91 | 1930 | Scrapped 1945 |
| HMS Keith | D06 | 1930 | Sunk 1940 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from B-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.