Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Destroyer class

T-class destroyer

S and T class

The class in numbers

  • 16 Completed
  • 2 Lost

Design and service

Type
Destroyer
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)

Sources

  • Facts harvested from T-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.