Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Royal Navy — Destroyer class

E and F-class destroyer

The class in numbers

  • 18 Completed
  • 10 Lost
  • 8 Scrapped

Design and service

Type
Destroyer
Navy
Royal Navy
Built
1933–1935
In commission
1934–1968
Preceded by
C and D-class destroyer
Succeeded by
G and H-class destroyer
Operators
Canada
Subclasses
E, F

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, standard
1,405 long tons (1,428 t)
Displacement, full load
1,940 long tons (1,971 t)
Length
100.28 m (329 ft) OA
Speed
35.5 knots (65.7 km/h, 40.9 mph)
Complement
145
Main gun
120 mm (4.7 in)
Armament
  • 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
  • 2 × quadruple 0.5 in machine guns
  • 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 1 × depth charge rack, 2 × throwers and 20 × depth charges
Flotilla leaders, where different
Displacement, standard
1,495 long tons (1,519 t)
Displacement, full load
2,050 long tons (2,083 t)
Length
104.55 m (343 ft) OA
Speed
36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
Complement
175
Main gun
119 mm (4.7 in)
Armament
  • 5 × single 4.7 in guns

Roster

Holding 11 of the 18 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 Qu’Appelle (H69) H69 1935 Scrapped 1947
HMCS Saskatchewan (H70) H70 1935 Scrapped 1946
HMS Fame (H78) H78 1934 Scrapped 1968
HMS Faulknor (H62) H62 1935 1946
HMS Fearless (H67) H67 1934 Scuttled 1941
HMS Firedrake (H79) H79 1935 Sunk 1942
HMS Foresight (H68) H68 1934 Sunk 1942
HMS Forester (H74) H74 1935 Scrapped 1946
HMS Fortune (H70) H70 1935 Scrapped 1946
HMS Foxhound (H69) H69 1935 Scrapped 1947
HMS Fury (H76) H76 1935 Scrapped 1944

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