Royal Navy — Destroyer class
Thornycroft type destroyer leader
The class in numbers
- 7 Planned
- 5 Completed
- 2 Cancelled
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Built
- 1916–1925
- In commission
- 1917–1945
- Preceded by
- Admiralty V-class leader
- Succeeded by
- Admiralty type leader
- Builders
- Thornycroft
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,480 long tons (1,504 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,009 long tons (2,041 t)
- Length
- 100.28 m (329 ft) OA
- Speed
- 38 knots (70.4 km/h, 43.7 mph)
- Complement
- 164
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 5 × BL 4.7 in (120 mm) Mark I guns
- 1 × 12 pdr (3 in) HA Mark VIII
- 2 × triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Roster
Holding 2 of the 5 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 Broke (D83) | D83 | 1925 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMS Keppel (D84) | D84 | 1925 | Scrapped 1945 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Thornycroft type destroyer leader on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.