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English: Contemporary builder’s model of the A Class destroyer HMS Antelope at the Science Museum, South Kensington, 15 November 2008.
By the mid-1920’s the Admiralty decided that new destroyers were needed after the hiatus following WWI. Tenders were sought from the most highly regarded destroyer buikders - Thornycroft, Yarrow, J Samuel White, Denny and Hawthorne Leslie for a new design taking the Modified W class, the last destroyer class designed in WWI, as a starting point but employing the latest construction and machinery developments. In addition, the new design had to have a top speed of 37 kts, improved habitability and better seaworthiness. Thornycroft and Yarrow won the tendering process and were asked to design and build two prototypes within very wide parameters although they had to be armed to a similar standard as the Modified W Class. Thornycroft’s 1,350 ton HMS Amazon and Yarrow’s 1,170 ton HMS Ambuscade were both launched in 1926. Aside from teething troubles, both had successful trials and the subsequent Admiralty designed standard A Class destroyer was somewhat of a synthesis of the two prototypes although most similar to Thornycroft’s design. The A Class were the first of a large number (79 ships) of the new standard design comprising the A to I Classes built in 1929-41. So highly regarded were they in the 1930’s that many similar ships were built for foreign navies also. Eight A Class ships plus a slightly larger flotilla leader were built for the RN in 1929-30 and 2 for the RCN in 1930. HMS Antelope was built by Hawthorne Leslie, launched in 1929 and completed in 1930. The RN standard A’s had 34,000 shp turbines, had a designed maximum speed of 35 kts, measured 312 ft x 32.5 ft x 12.3 ft and had a displacement of 1,350 tons. They were armed with 5x4.7” (5x1), 2x2 pdr (2x1) AA guns and 8x21”TT (2x4). Most were modified to escort destroyers as the war progressed. The Antelope was scrapped in 1922. Of the 11 ships, 6 were lost in WWII and the others broken up in 1945-4 |
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