U and V-class destroyer

Class overview
NameU and V class
Builders
Operators
Preceded byS and T class
Succeeded byW and Z class
Built1941–1944
In commission1943–1982
Completed16
Lost1
General characteristics
TypeDestroyer
Displacement
  • 1,777 long tons (1,806 t) standard
  • 2,058 long tons (2,091 t) full load
Length363 ft (111 m)
Beam35 ft 8 in (10.87 m)
Draught10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion
  • 2 × Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers
  • Geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp (29,828 kW)
  • 2 shafts
Speed36.75 knots (42.3 mph; 68.1 km/h)[1]
Range4,860 nmi (9,000 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h)
Complement180 (225 in flotilla leader)
Armament

The U and V class was a class of sixteen destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1942–1943. They were constructed in two flotillas, each with names beginning with "U-" or "V-" (although there was a return to the pre-war practice of naming the designated flotilla leader after a famous naval figure from history to honour the lost ships Grenville and Hardy). The hull was nearly identical to the preceding ships of the S and T classes, but the U and V class ships had different bridge and armament fits. The flotillas constituted the 7th Emergency Flotilla and 8th Emergency Flotilla, built under the War Emergency Programme. These ships used the Fuze Keeping Clock HA Fire Control Computer.[2]

  1. ^ Robert Gardiner (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. Naval Institute Press. p. 42.
  2. ^ Hodges, Peter; Friedman, Norman (1979). Destroyer Weapons of World War II. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-85177-137-8.