Ship "Index".
10). Destroyers, - WW1 to present.
Late WW1 "V & W's", plus their many conversions, and "Emergency Builds".( many served and survived through WW11. ) |
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"Hunt" class, ( all groups ) The Royal Navy had identified a need for two types of destroyer; larger vessels with heavy gun and torpedo armaments for "fleet" work, and another type for "fast escort" duties. Although "old" fleet destroyers, such as the "V & W's" above, could be allocated to escort work, as new construction replaced them, they were unsuitable for the task. Fleet destroyers were designed for speed and their machinery was inefficient at convoy speeds, reducing their range. Their shape made them poor sea boats at low speed, also exacerbated by additional equipment on the superstructure. Many modifications were needed to ease these problems. The "Fast escort" vessels forsook the heavy armament and some of the speed of the fleet type to reduce unit cost and to better suit mass production. This new vessel "was later classified as an "escort destroyer" and the many variations to the "Hunt Class" is the result. |
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52). Hunt. – 1 photo.
55). Krakowiak. 1 photo. ( ex. HMS Silverton.) |
75). Stevenstone. 3 photo's. |
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WW11 "Tribal" Class. |
"Battle Class" all groups. Designed with the "Pacific Theatre" in mind, these ships had a much better A.A. fit than the then current RN Destroyer types, and also had a heavier 4.5" set up using twin mounting turrets rather than the existing single gun mounts. The Later Australian Navy "Battles" were also known as the "Anzac" class and were fitted with the more modern Mk V1 Twin mountings as were fitted to newer RN ships. |
"C, Ca, Ch, Cr, Co," Classes. ( The sole surviving "C" Class example, HMS Cavalier can be found preserved at Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard Museum. ) |
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2). Arunta. HMAS. - 2 photo's. 4). Bataan. HMAS. - 2 photo's. |
6). Artemis. - 1 photo. ( ex.HMS Sluys ) 18). Khaiber. - 1 photo. (ex. HMS. Cadiz) |
11). Chequers. 3 photos. |
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"Town" Class.
There were originally 50 of these American WW1 vintage destroyers provided
to us under the "Lend - Lease" agreement, for which we gave up many shore
bases in exchange. |
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"Weapon" Class. Originally a class of 19 ships, designed to utilise the yards that were too small to build the "Battle Class", only these 4 were ever completed, the rest were scrapped either on the stocks, at launch, or were never laid down. |
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"Type 82" - The odd man out ! |
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In this, the largest part of this section, can be found all other groups, i.e:- WW1 "Emergency Builds", along with everything else from the 1920's "A" class, ( updated V & W's more or less ), through to the late WW11 "Z" class. There are probably some early "S & T" class WW1 ships in amongst these that really should be in the "WW1 Destroyer" section. |
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