Royal Navy — Destroyer class
S and T-class destroyer
S and T class
The class in numbers
- 16 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Preceded by
- Q and R-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- U and V-class destroyer
- Builders
- Hawthorn Leslie and Company
- John Brown & Company
- Cammell Laird
- William Denny and Brothers
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
- J. Samuel White
- Swan Hunter
- Subclasses
- S, T
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,710 long tons (1,737 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,505 long tons (2,545 t)
- Length
- 110.34 m (362 ft) OA
- Speed
- 36.8 knots (68.1 km/h, 42.3 mph)
- Complement
- 180
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 4.7-inch (120-mm) QF Mk IX guns (4×1)
- 2 × 40mm Bofors (1x2)
- 8 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns
- 8 × 21 inch torpedo tubes (2×4)
Roster
Holding 9 of the 16 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 Savage (G20) | G20 | 1942 | Scrapped 1962 |
| HMS Teazer (R23) | R23 | 1943 | Scrapped 1965 |
| HMS Tenacious (R45) | R45 | 1943 | 1965 |
| HMS Termagant (R89) | R89 | 1943 | 1965 |
| HMS Terpsichore (R33) | R33 | 1944 | Scrapped 1966 |
| HMS Troubridge | R00 | 1943 | Scrapped 1970 |
| HMS Tumult (R11) | R11 | 1943 | Scrapped 1965 |
| HMS Tuscan (R56) | R56 | 1943 | Scrapped 1966 |
| HMS Tyrian (R67) | R67 | 1943 | 1965 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from S and T-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.