Year: 1971 Language: English Author: Martin Hubert Brice Genre: History of the Navy Publisher: Ian Allan Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 326 Description: In 1934 the Admiralty considered the possible threat posed by the 20 special type destroyers of the Japanese fabuki class, which mounted 65 inch guns and ninth repeal tubes on a displacement of 1680 tons. Regarded by some authorities as the most powerful destroyers in the world, they were rivals by the Italian Navagatoti-class of scouts, each displacing 1943 tons and carrying 6 4.7 inch guns and up to six torpedo tubes. The French Navy had 24 super destroyers and service and a further six nearing completion. The smallest of these displaced over 2100 tons and mounted 5.1 inch guns and six torpedo tubes. Germany did not yet have such big destroyers, but there were indications that the new class than being laid down would displace more than 2000 tons and have a powerful gun and torpedo armament. On the other hand, the majority of recent British destroyers and service, under construction or about to be ordered only mounted four 4.7 inch guns and 8 torpedo tubes. Their displacement was something over 1300 tons. The V. and W. - and earlier classes - were even smaller, weaker, and were of course much older. The Admiralty therefore decided that the next class of destroyer must be larger, thus providing a steadier platform for the extra guns that were needed to defend the fleet against torpedo attack by these big foreign ships. Their main armament was to be so designed that it could also be used to augment the antiaircraft defenses of the fleet. Torpedo armament was considered less important, while their anti-submarine capability was not given a very high priority. Admittedly this feature of their armament was superior to earlier classes, but perhaps it was felt that the comforting use of asdic would guarantee the defeat of any under water menace. The new class would not be expected to carry out either high-speed mine-sweeping or mind laying
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The Tribals: biography of a destroyer class
Language: English
Author: Martin Hubert Brice
Genre: History of the Navy
Publisher: Ian Allan
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 326
Description: In 1934 the Admiralty considered the possible threat posed by the 20 special type destroyers of the Japanese fabuki class, which mounted 65 inch guns and ninth repeal tubes on a displacement of 1680 tons. Regarded by some authorities as the most powerful destroyers in the world, they were rivals by the Italian Navagatoti-class of scouts, each displacing 1943 tons and carrying 6 4.7 inch guns and up to six torpedo tubes. The French Navy had 24 super destroyers and service and a further six nearing completion. The smallest of these displaced over 2100 tons and mounted 5.1 inch guns and six torpedo tubes. Germany did not yet have such big destroyers, but there were indications that the new class than being laid down would displace more than 2000 tons and have a powerful gun and torpedo armament.
On the other hand, the majority of recent British destroyers and service, under construction or about to be ordered only mounted four 4.7 inch guns and 8 torpedo tubes. Their displacement was something over 1300 tons. The V. and W. - and earlier classes - were even smaller, weaker, and were of course much older.
The Admiralty therefore decided that the next class of destroyer must be larger, thus providing a steadier platform for the extra guns that were needed to defend the fleet against torpedo attack by these big foreign ships. Their main armament was to be so designed that it could also be used to augment the antiaircraft defenses of the fleet. Torpedo armament was considered less important, while their anti-submarine capability was not given a very high priority. Admittedly this feature of their armament was superior to earlier classes, but perhaps it was felt that the comforting use of asdic would guarantee the defeat of any under water menace. The new class would not be expected to carry out either high-speed mine-sweeping or mind laying
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