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HMCS Haida, a Canadian Tribal-class destroyer. British destroyer flotillas were formed from single classes, with a slightly adapted flotilla leader; the aim had been to produce a flotilla each year. As a broad summary, British destroyers developed from the successful V and W-class destroyers of World War I, increasing in complexity until World ...
In 1913, the surviving members of the large heterogeneous array of older 27-knot and 30-knot torpedo boat destroyer types (all six of the original 26-knot ships had been disposed of by the end of 1912) were organised into the A, B, C and D classes according to their design speed and the number of funnels they possessed.
The L and M class was a class of sixteen destroyers which served in the British Royal Navy during World War II.The ships of the class were launched between 1939 and 1942. The L class (also known as the Laforeys) were approved under the 1937 Naval Estimates.
A- and B-class destroyer [63] [64] C and D-class destroyer [65] [66] E and F-class destroyer [67] G and H-class destroyer [68] I-class destroyer [69] [70] Tribal-class destroyer [71] [72] J-, K- and N-class destroyer [73] [74] L and M-class destroyer [58] [75] Hunt-class destroyer [76] [57] Town-class destroyer [77] [78] O and P-class destroyer ...
The Hunt class was to ship the same armament, plus a quadruple QF 2-pounder mount Mark VII on a hull of the same length but with 8 feet (2 m) less beam and installed power raised to 19,000 shp (14,000 kW) to give 27 knots (50 km/h). The first twenty were ordered in March and April 1939.
HMS Jutland (D62) was a later or 1943 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. She was named after the Battle of Jutland , the largest naval battle of the First World War . The first Jutland was launched in 1945, but was cancelled that same year.
destroyer escort: 1,350 4 April 1944 sunk 3 October 1944 Shimushu Imperial Japanese Navy: Shimushu: kaibōkan: 870 30 June 1940 to Soviet Union as EK-31 5 July 1947, decommissioned 16 May 1959 and scrapped Shisaka: Hiburi: kaibōkan: 940 15 December 1944 to Republic of China as Huian 6 July 1947, defected to Communist China 23 April 1949 ...
Obdurate to Daring: British Fleet Destroyers 1941–45. Windsor, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 978-0-9560769-0-8. Friedman, Norman (2006). British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-86176-137-6. Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Empire Warships of the Second World War ...