C/D class destroyer

A pair of Canadian C/D-class destroyers moored at Vancouver, British Columbia on May 26th, 1939.

The C/D-class was a group of 26 destroyers built for the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy in the early 1930s. As in previous years, it was originally intended to order a complete flotilla comprising eight destroyers—plus a flotilla leader as the ninth unit—in each year. However, only four ships—plus a leader—were ordered under the 1929–30 Programme as the C class. The other four ships planned for the C class were never ordered as an economy measure and disarmament gesture by the Labour government of Ramsay Macdonald. A complete flotilla—the 'D' class—was ordered under the 1930–31 Programme.

Specifications

• Type: Destroyer
• Service Period: 1932-1945
• Characteristics:
  • Length: 329 feet (100.28 meters)
  • Beam: 33 feet (10.06 meters)
  • Draft: 12 feet 6 inches (3.81 meters)
  • Displacement: 1,375 tons (Standard); 1,890 tons (Full Load)
• Crew: 145
• Propulsion: 3 x Admiralty superheated high pressure boilers, 2 x Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 x shafts, 36,000 shp (27,000 kW)
• Range: 5,870 nautical miles (10,871 kilometers) at 15 knots (27.78 km/h)
• Speed: 36 knots (66.7 km/h)
• Sensor Suite:
  • Type 271 target-indication RDF
  • Type 286 short-range surface search RDF
  • HF/DF Radio Direction Finder
  • Type 124 ASDIC
• Armament:
  • 4 x QF 4.7"/45-caliber Mk.IX dual purpose naval guns (4x1)
  • 1 x QF 3"/45-caliber 20 cwt anti-aircraft guns (1x1)
  • 8 x QF.5-inch Vickers machine guns (2x4)
  • 8 x 21" torpedo tubes
  • 20 x depth charges, 1 x rail, 2 x throwers

Unit Run

Royal Navy

C-class

• HMS Comet (H00)
• HMS Crusader (H60)
• HMS Captain
• HMS Kempenfelt (D18/I18) - flotilla leader
• HMS Combatant
• HMS Cerberus
• HMS Cygnet (H83)
• HMS Crescent (H48) - Sunk in collision with HMS Calcutta in Gironde estuary on June 25th, 1940.
• HMS Cobra

D-class

• HMS Duncan (D99/I99) - flotilla leader
• HMS Defender (H07) - Bombed and sunk on July 11th, 1941.
• HMS Daring (H16) - Torpedoed by KMS U-23 on February 18th, 1940.
• HMS Diamond (H22) - Bombed and sunk on April 27th, 1941.
• HMS Delight (H38) - Bombed and sunk on July 29th, 1940.
• HMS Diana (H49) - Sunk in collision with MV Port Fairy on October 22nd, 1940.
• HMS Dainty (H53) - Bombed and sunk off Tobruk on February 24th, 1941.
• HMS Duchess (H64) - Sunk in collision with HMS Barham on December 12th, 1939.
• HMS Decoy (H75)

Royal Canadian Navy

• HMCS Assiniboine (D188)
• HMCS Fraser (D189)
• HMCS Ottawa (D190)
• HMCS Restigouche (D191)
• HMCS St. Laurent (D192)
• HMCS Kootenay (D193)
• HMCS Margaree (D194)
• HMCS Liard (D195)