Destroyer class
H-class destroyer
The class in numbers
- 24 Completed
- 17 Lost
- 7 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from H-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.