Hunt Class Destroyer - Type II

Type II

General characteristics
Type II
Displacement: 1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard
1,430 long tons (1,450 t) full load
Length: 85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) o/a
Beam: 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in)
Draught: 2.51 m (8 ft 3 in)
Propulsion: 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp (14,000 kW)
Speed: 27 knots (31 mph; 50 km/h)
25.5 kn (29.3 mph; 47.2 km/h) full
Range: 3,600 nmi (6,700 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
Complement: 164
Armament:

• 6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
• 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
• 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III

• 110 depth charges, 2 throwers, 3 racks

Eighteen were ordered on 4 September 1940 and two more (Lauderdale and Ledbury) on the following day. Three of these were completed to the Type I specification - Blankney, Blencathra and Brocklesby). A final batch of sixteen were ordered on 20 December 1939.

  • Avon Vale - John Brown, Clydebank
  • Blankney
  • Blencathra - Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
  • Brocklesby - Cammell Laird, sold and scrapped in 1968
  • Chiddingfold - sold to the Indian Navy; commissioned as INS Ganga (D94) in 1953
  • Cowdray
  • Croome
  • Dulverton - Lost 13 November 1943
  • Eridge
  • Farndale - Scrapped at Blyth on 4 December 1962
  • Heythrop - Lost 20 March 1942
  • Lamerton - Sold to Indian Navy; commissioned as INS Gomati (D93) in 1953
  • Liddesdale - Vickers-Armstrongs, Tyne, BU 1948
  • Oakley (i) - To the Polish Navy as Kujawiak
  • Puckeridge - Lost 6 September 1943, by U-boat 617, 129 crew rescued.
  • Silverton - To the Polish Navy as Krakowiak
  • Wheatland
  • Wilton - Yarrow, Scotstoun
  • Lauderdale
  • Ledbury
  • Badsworth - To the Royal Norwegian Navy as Arendal
  • Beaufort
  • Bedale - To the Polish Navy as Slazak; reverted to Royal Navy, and sold to Indian Navy; commissioned as INS Godavari (D92) in 1953
  • Bicester
  • Blackmore - To the Royal Danish Navy as Esbern Snare
  • Bramham - To the Royal Hellenic Navy as Themistocles
  • Calpe - To the Royal Danish Navy as Rolf Krake
  • Exmoor - To the Royal Danish Navy as Valdemar Sejr
  • Grove - Lost 12 June 1942
  • Hursley - To the Royal Hellenic Navy as Kriti
  • Hurworth - Lost 22 October 1943
  • Middleton
  • Oakley (ii) - begun as Tickham and renamed.
  • Southwold - Lost 24 March 1942, Malta convoy MW10, Zonker Point, Malta
  • Tetcott
  • Zetland

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