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The V and W class was an amalgam of six similar classes of destroyer built for the Royal Navy under the 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th of fourteen War Emergency Programmes during the First World War and generally treated as one class. For their time they were among the most powerful and advanced ships of their type in the world, and set the trend for ...
An index list to all the V & W Class destroyers with links to their histories and the stories of the men who served in them and their adoption by towns and villages throughout Britain.
42 Destroyers of the Admiralty V & W class. 14 of them were lost. Full wartime service history on this vessel.
9 paź 2020 · By 1942 the V & W class days were numbered; as more modern destroyers, especially the Tribal class, took on the front line roles. The older destroyers became fast supply vessels or were modified as training ships or long range convoy escorts (by converting one boiler room into fuel storage).
An index list to all the V & W Class destroyers with links to their histories and the stories of the men who served on them
This is a list of destroyers of the Second World War. [1] [2] [3] [4]The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re ...
The Hunt-class destroyers was a class of escort destroyer of the Royal Navy. The first vessels were ordered early in 1939, and the class saw extensive service in the Second World War, particularly on the British east coast and Mediterranean convoys. They were named after British fox hunts.
