Royal Navy — Destroyer class
G and H-class destroyer
The class in numbers
- 24 Completed
- 17 Lost
- 7 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navies
- Royal Navy 18
Hellenic Navy 3
Kriegsmarine 2 - Built
- 1934–1940
- In commission
- 1936–1964
- Preceded by
- E and F-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- I-class destroyer
- Operators
- Brazil, Canada
- Subclasses
- G, H, Havant
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
G and H class as built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,860 long tons (1,890 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft) OA
- Speed
- 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h, 40.9 mph)
- Complement
- 137
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in AA machine guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × depth charge rack, 2 × throwers, 20 × depth charges
Havant class, where different
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 3 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- Up to 110 depth charges
Grenville & Hardy, where different
- Displacement, standard
- 1,465 long tons (1,489 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,033 long tons (2,066 t)
- Length
- 102.72 m (337 ft) OA
- Complement
- 175
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 5 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
Roster
Holding 23 of the 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| German destroyer Hermes (ZG3) | ZG3 | 1939 | Scuttled 1943 |
| Greek destroyer Vasilefs Georgios | 1939 | Scuttled 1943 | |
| Greek destroyer Vasilissa Olga | 1939 | Sunk 1943 | |
| HMCS Chaudière (H99) | H99 | 1936 | Scrapped 1950 |
| HMS H28 | 1918 | Scrapped 1944 | |
| HMS H31 | 1919 | Sunk 1941 | |
| HMS H32 | 1919 | 1944 | |
| HMS H33 | 1919 | Scrapped 1944 | |
| HMS H34 | 1919 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| HMS H43 | 1919 | Scrapped 1944 | |
| HMS H44 | 1920 | Scrapped 1944 | |
| HMS H49 | 1919 | Sunk 1940 | |
| HMS H50 | 1920 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| HMS H6 | 1915 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| HMS Hasty (H24) | H24 | 1936 | Scuttled 1942 |
| HMS Havock (H43) | H43 | 1936 | Wrecked 1942 |
| HMS Hereward (H93) | H93 | 1936 | Sunk 1941 |
| HMS Hero (H99) | H99 | 1936 | Scrapped 1950 |
| HMS Hostile | H55 | 1936 | Scuttled 1940 |
| HMS Hotspur (H01) | H01 | 1936 | Scrapped 1972 |
| HMS Hunter (H35) | H35 | 1936 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Hyperion (H97) | H97 | 1936 | Sunk 1940 |
| HNLMS O 8 | 1915 | Scuttled 1945 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from G and H-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.