Royal Navy Conventional Destroyer. 16 planned RN, 8 completed: HMS Delight, Daring, Dainty, Diamond, Defender, Decoy, Diana, Duchess. 4 for the RAN, 3 completed: HMAS Vampire, Vendetta, Voyager. The end of a cycle ! The Daring class were the very simultanously the very last ww2 British destroyer design, last conventional Royal Navy destroyer, and the … Read more
UK, Royal Navy: HMS Brecon, Bissenden. The Hunt class Type IV were the very last destroyer escorts made for the Royal Navy, after the Type III and the lend-lease Captain class. They were by far the largest, best armed and refined of the series, but proceeded from a private venture by Thornycroft, not from an … Read more
UK, Royal Navy: 28 (on 86 Hunt total) Escort DDs. The Hunt class Type III were the last mass-built destroyer escorts, and arguably the best armed and ironed-out of the series. Tenty eight were completed in 1942-43 in about a year of construction at Yarrow, White, Vickers, Swan Hunter, Stephens, Fairefield, Camell Laird, Hawthorne leslie, … Read more
Royal Navy Emergency Destroyer (built 1940-42) Q class: Queenborough, Quadrant, Quail, Quality, Quentin, Quiberon, Quickmatch, Quilliam R class: Rotherham, Racehorse, Raider, Rapid, Redoubt, Relentless, Rocket, Roebuck HMS Rapid (H53), standard War Emergency Programme, 4th flotilla. In a nutshell, Q and R were sixteen War Emergency Programme destroyers ordered by the Royal Navy as the 3rd … Read more
Royal Navy (1940-42) O class: Onslow, Offa, Onslaught, Oribi, Obdurate, Obedient, Opportune, Orwell P class: Pakenham, Paladin, Panther, Partridge, Pathfinder, Penn, Petard, Porcupine The O and P class were wartime destroyers of the British Royal Navy ordered in 1939, and first ships in the War Emergency Programme. The O was the first, and the P-class, … Read more
Royal Navy (24 built 1937-41) L class: Laforey*, Lance, Gurkha (ex-Larne), Lively, Legion, Lightning, Lookout, Loyal M class: Milne, Mahratta (ex-Marksman), Musketeer, Myrmidon, Matchless, Meteor, Marne, Martin The L and M class were sixteen destroyers of the British Royal Navy, launched between 1939 and 1942. The L class, also referred as Laforey class due to … Read more
UK Royal Navy: 23 (86 total) ships. The Hunt class were escort destroyer of the Royal Navy, with first vessels ordered early in 1939 specifically to taking on escort roles and free resgular destroyer for fleet work. The very first serie, seen here, was a famous design disaster in which stablilitary calculations proved totally wrong. … Read more
Royal Navy (1930-34) C class: HMS Comet, Crusader, Cygnet, Crescent (To Canada) C class Leader: HMS Kempenfelt D-class: HMS Dainty, Daring, Decoy, Defender, Delight, Diamond, Diana, Duchess D-class leader: HMS Duncan The C and D class were 14 destroyers built for the Royal Navy and a repeat of the 1926 A-B designs, albeit enlarged and … Read more
Royal Navy (1928-31) A class: HMS Acasta, Achates, Active, Antelope, Anthony, Ardent, Arrow, Acheron Canadian A class: HMCS Saguenay, Skeena A class Leader: HMS Codrington B-class: HMS Basilisk, Beagle, Blanche, Boadicea, Boreas, Brazen, Brilliant, Bulldog B-class leader: HMS Keith The first interwar British Royal Navy destroyers were the A and B classes, identical and built … Read more
UK Royal Navy (1916-1945) 1916 program: HMS Scott, Bruce, Douglas, Campbell, MackKay, Malcolm, Montrose, Stuart (Built 1916-1920). Second part on the late British WWI flotilla Leaders. The Admiralty type (Scott class) were the second flotilla leaders built almost alongside the Shakespare class or “Thornycroft type” proposed by the latter company. They were the fastest and … Read more
