"A" and "B" Class Destroyer (1929)

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Twenty "A" and "B" Class Destroyers were completed in the early 1930s. This class of destroyer inaugurated Britain's new scheme for destroyer production, in which a given year's build would comprise a flotilla of eight destroyers and one leader, all ships having the same initial letter (more or less). Moreover, the even years would have ships of a very minor alteration over the previous year's design, reducing cost and complexity while making it convenient to name the classes by paired letters.

The "A" class ships, launched primarily in 1929 were comprised of eight destroyers for the Royal Navy with leader H.M.S. Codrington, as well as an additional two for the Royal Canadian Navy. The following year's "B" class was more typical of the pattern to come: eight destroyers for Britain and their leader, H.M.S. Keith.

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Bibliography

  • March, Edgar J. (1966). British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892-1953. London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited. (on Bookfinder.com).


"A" and "B" Class Destroyer
"A" Class Leader
  Codrington  
Destroyers
  Acasta Achates Active Antelope  
  Anthony Ardent Arrow Acheron  
Canadian Destroyers
  Saguenay Skeena  
"B" Class Leader
  Keith  
Destroyers
  Basilisk Beagle Blanche Boadicea  
  Boreas Brazen Brilliant Bulldog  
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