Royal Navy — Destroyer class
I-class destroyer
I class
The class in numbers
- 13 Completed
- 6 Lost
- 7 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- In commission
- 1937–1960
- Preceded by
- G and H-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Tribal-class destroyer (1936)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,370 long tons (1,392 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,888 long tons (1,918 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Complement
- 137
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 1 - QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns
- 2 × 4 - 0.5 in machine guns
- 2 × 5 - 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × Depth charges, 1 rack and 2 throwers
- 60 mines (minelayers only)
Roster
Holding 11 of the 13 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 Icarus (D03) | D03 | 1937 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Ilex | D61 | 1937 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Imogen (D44) | D44 | 1936 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Imperial | D09 | 1937 | Scuttled 1941 |
| HMS Impulsive | D11 | 1938 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Inconstant (H49) | H49 | 1942 | Scrapped 1960 |
| HMS Inglefield | D02 | 1937 | Sunk 1944 |
| HMS Intrepid (D10) | D10 | 1936 | Sunk 1943 |
| HMS Isis (D87) | D87 | 1937 | Sunk 1944 |
| HMS Ithuriel (H05) | H05 | 1942 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMS Ivanhoe (D16) | D16 | 1937 | Scuttled 1940 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from I-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.