Royal Navy — Destroyer class
J-class destroyer
The class in numbers
- 25 Planned
- 24 Completed
- 1 Cancelled
- 13 Lost
- 11 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Built
- 1937–1941
- Preceded by
- Tribal-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- L and M-class destroyer
- Subclasses
- J, K, N
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
J and K classes as built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,690 long tons (1,717 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,330 long tons (2,367 t)
- Length
- 108.51 m (356 ft) OA
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Complement
- 183
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 3 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 1 × quadruple 2 pdr (40 mm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) anti-aircraft machineguns
- 2 × quintuple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × rack, 2 × throwers for depth charges
N class where different
- Displacement, standard
- 1,773 long tons (1,801 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,384 long tons (2,422 t)
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 1 × single 4 in (102 mm) AA gun
- 4 × single 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns
- 2 × twin 0.5 in anti-aircraft machineguns
- 1 × quintuple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 1 × rack, 2 × throwers for depth charges
Roster
Holding 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Jackal (F22) | F22 | 1939 | Scuttled |
| HMS Jaguar (F34) | F34 | 1939 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMS Janus (F53) | F53 | 1939 | Sunk 1944 |
| HMS Javelin | F61 | 1939 | Scrapped 1949 |
| HMS Jersey (F72) | F72 | 1939 | Sunk 1941 |
| HMS Jervis | F00 | 1939 | Scrapped 1954 |
| HMS Juno (F46) | F46 | 1939 | Sunk 1941 |
| HMS Jupiter (F85) | F85 | 1939 | Sunk 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from J-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.