Hunt Class Destroyer - Type I

Type I

General characteristics
Type I
Displacement: 1,000 long tons (1,000 t) standard
1,340 long tons (1,360 t) full load
Length: 85 m (278 ft 10 in) o/a
Beam: 8.8 m (28 ft 10 in)
Draught: 3.27 m (10 ft 9 in)
Propulsion: 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp (14,000 kW)
Speed: 27.5 knots (31.6 mph; 50.9 km/h)
26 kn (30 mph; 48 km/h) full
Range: 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
1,000 nmi (1,900 km) at 26 kn (48 km/h)
Complement: 146
Armament:

• 4 × 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

• 40 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack

The first ten of the following were ordered on 21 March 1939, and the other ten of 11 April 1939. Three more were ordered on 4 September 1939 (see below) were intended to be of Type II, but were actually completed to the Type I design.

  • Atherstone
    • Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
    • Laid down: 8 June 1939
    • Launched: 12 December 1939
    • Completed: 23 March 1940
    • Fate: Paid off October 1945 and broken up 25 November 1957.
  • Berkeley
    • Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
    • Laid down: 8 June 1939
    • Launched: 29 January 1940
    • Completed: 6 June 1940
    • Fate: Bombed during the Dieppe Raid 19 August 1942.
  • Cattistock
    • Builder: Yarrow, Birkenhead
    • Laid down: 9 June 1939
    • Launched: 22 February 1940
    • Completed: 22 July 1940
    • Fate: Paid off 26 March 1946, and broken up 2 July 1957.
  • Cleveland
    • Builder: Yarrow, Scotstoun
    • Laid down: 7 July 1939
    • Launched: 24 April 1940
    • Completed: 18 September 1940
    • Fate: Paid off September 1945; sold to be broken up 1957, but wrecked en route to the scrapyard.
  • Eglinton
    • Builder: Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne
    • Laid down: 8 June 1939
    • Launched: 28 December 1939
    • Completed: 28 August 1940
    • Fate: Paid off 1945 and broken up 28 May 1956.
  • Exmoor
    • Builder: Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne
    • Laid down: 8 June 1939
    • Launched: 25 January 1940
    • Completed: 1 November 1940
    • Fate: Sunk by E-boat S-30, off Lowestoft, 25 February 1941.
  • Fernie
    • Builder: John Brown & Company, Clydebank
    • Laid down: 8 June 1939
    • Launched: 9 January 1940
    • Completed: 29 May 1940
    • Fate: Aircraft target ship August 1945 to 1947. Paid off 1947, and broken up 7 November 1956.
  • Garth
    • Builder: John Brown & Company, Clydebank
    • Laid down: 8 June 1939
    • Launched: 14 February 1940
    • Completed: 1 July 1940
    • Fate: Paid off December 1945 and broken up 15 August 1958.
  • Hambledon
    • Builder: Swan Hunter, Wallsend
    • Laid down: 8 June 1939
    • Launched: 12 December 1939
    • Completed: 8 June 1940
    • Fate: Paid off December 1945 and broken up 4 February 1958.
  • Holderness
    • Builder: Swan Hunter, Wallsend
    • Laid down: 29 June 1939
    • Launched: 8 February 1940
    • Completed: 10 August 1940
    • Fate: Paid off 20 May 1946 and broken up 20 November 1956.
  • Cotswold
    • Builder: Yarrow, Scotstoun
    • Laid down: 11 October 1939
    • Launched: 18 July 1940
    • Completed: 16 November 1940
    • Fate: Paid off 29 June 1946 and broken up 11 September 1957.
  • Cottesmore
    • Builder: Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun
    • Laid down: 12 December 1939
    • Launched: 5 September 1940
    • Completed: 29 December 1940
    • Fate: Paid off 28 February 1946. Sold to Egypt in 1950 as Ibrahim el Awal, renamed Mohamed Ali el Kebir in 1951, scrapped.
  • Mendip
    • Builder: Swan Hunter, Wallsend
    • Laid down: 10 August 1939
    • Launched: 9 April 1940
    • Completed: 12 October 1940
    • Fate: Paid off 20 May 1946. Sold to Nationalist China 1947 and renamed Lin Fu. Seized prior to delivery and re-sold 1949 to Egypt as Mohamed Ali el Kebir, renamed Ibrahim el Awal in 1951, captured by Israel on 31 October 1956 and commissioned as INS Haifa (K-38), decommissioned 1968 used as training target and sunk by a Gabriel missile.
  • Meynell
    • Builder: Swan Hunter, Wallsend
    • Laid down: 10 August 1939
    • Launched: 7 June 1940
    • Completed: 30 December 1940
    • Fate: Aircraft target ship 11 September 1945 to December 1946, when paid off. Sold to Ecuador 1954 and renamed Presidente Velasco Ibarra.
  • Pytchley
    • Builder: Scotts, Greenock
    • Laid down: 26 July 1939
    • Launched: 13 February 1940
    • Completed: 23 October 1940
    • Fate: Paid off August 1946 and broken up 1 December 1956.
  • Quantock
    • Builder: Scotts, Greenock
    • Laid down: 26 July 1939
    • Launched: 22 April 1940
    • Completed: 6 February 1941
    • Fate: Paid off December 1945. Sold to Ecuador 1954 and renamed Presidente Alfaro.
  • Quorn
    • Builder: J. Samuel White, Cowes
    • Laid down: 26 July 1939
    • Launched: 27 March 1940
    • Completed: 21 September 1940
    • Fate: Sunk by a Linsen explosive motor boat off the Normandy beaches during the D-Day invasion, 2 August 1944.
  • Southdown
    • Builder: J. Samuel White, Cowes
    • Laid down: 22 August 1939
    • Launched: 5 July 1940
    • Completed: 8 November 1940
    • Fate: Aircraft target ship 8 September 1945 to 1946. Paid off 22 May 1946, and broken up 1 November 1956.
  • Tynedale
    • Builder: Stephens, Linthouse
    • Laid down: 27 July 1939
    • Launched: 5 June 1940
    • Completed: 2 December 1940
    • Fate: Sunk by the German submarine U-593 on 12 December 1943.
  • Whaddon
    • Builder: Stephens, Linthouse
    • Laid down: 27 July 1939
    • Launched: 16 July 1940
    • Completed: 28 February 1941
    • Fate: Paid off October 1945 and broken up 5 April 1959.

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