Royal Navy — Destroyer class
W and Z-class destroyer
W and Z class
The class in numbers
- 16 Completed
- 4 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- In commission
- 1943 - 1971
- Preceded by
- U and V-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- C-class destroyer (1943)
- Subclasses
- W, Z
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
W class
- Displacement, standard
- 1,710 long tons (1,737 t)
- Length
- 110.57 m (362.8 ft) OA
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Complement
- 179
- Main gun
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4.7 inch (120-mm) L/45 Mk.IX guns, single mounts CP Mk.XXII
- 4 × QF 2-pounder (40-mm) Mk.VIII "pom-poms", quad mount Mk.VII, or
- 2 × QF 40 mm Bofors, twin mount "Hazemeyer" Mk.IV
- 4 × A/A mountings
- twin 20 mm Oerlikon Mk.V
- single Bofors 40 mm Mk.III or "Boffin" Mk.V
- single QF 2-pounder Mk.XVI
- 8 (2x4) tubes for 21 inch torpedoes Mk.IX
- 2 racks & 4 throwers for 70 depth charges
Z class
- Displacement, standard
- 1,830 long tons (1,859 t)
- Main gun
- 114 mm (4.5 in)
- Armament
- 4 x QF 4.5 in (113 mm) Mk.IV guns, single mounts CP Mk.V
Roster
Holding 7 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 Myngs (R06) | R06 | 1944 | Sunk 1970 |
| HMS Zambesi | R66 | 1944 | 1959 |
| HMS Zealous (R39) | R39 | 1944 | Sunk 1967 |
| HMS Zebra (R81) | R81 | 1944 | 1959 |
| HMS Zenith (R95) | R95 | 1944 | Scrapped 2016 |
| HMS Zephyr (R19) | R19 | 1944 | 1958 |
| HMS Zodiac | R54 | 1944 | Scrapped |
Sources
- Facts harvested from W and Z-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.