"J", "K" and "N" classes
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Nationality: |
Britain |
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| Type: | DD | ||||||||||||||||||
| Class: | eight in each class; 24 overall | ||||||||||||||||||
| Commissioned: | circa 1939-1942 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Displacement: | 1,760 tons | ||||||||||||||||||
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Dimensions: (in feet and inches) |
356' 6" x 35' 8" x 13' 10" | ||||||||||||||||||
| Machinery: | 2-shaft Parsons turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers; 40,000shp. Oil: 464 tons. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Speed: | 36 knots | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Compliment: | 183 |
Sister ships:
| Pennant Number | Name | Builder | Fate |
| F.22 | JACKAL | John Brown | Sunk by aircraft bombs, 12 May 1942 |
| F.34 | JAGUAR | Denny | Sunk by submarine torpedo, 26 March 1942 |
| F.53 | JANUS | Swan Hunter | Sunk by aircraft torpedo, 23 January 1944 |
| F.61 | JAVELIN (ex-KASHMIR) | John Brown | Broken up in 1949 |
| F.72 | JERSEY | White | Sunk by mine, 2 May 1941 |
| F.00 | JERVIS | Hawthorne Leslie | Broken up in 1949 |
| F.46 | JUNO* (ex-JAMAICA) | Fairfield | Sunk by aircraft bombs, 21 May 1941 |
| F.85 | JUPITER | Yarrow | Sunk by mine, 27 February 1942 |
| F.28 | KANDAHAR* | Denny | Sunk by mine, 20 December 1941 |
| F.12 | KASHMIR (ex-JAVELIN) | Thornycroft | Sunk by aircraft bombs, 23 May 1941 |
| F.01 | KELLY | Hawthorn Leslie | Sunk by aircraft bombs, 23 May 1941 |
| F.37 | KELVIN | Fairfield | Broken up in 1949 |
| F.45 | KHARTOUM* | Swan Hunter | Sunk by internal explosion (see Notes), 23 June 1940 |
| F.50 | KIMBERLEY | Thornycroft | Broken up in 1949 |
| F.64 | KINGSTON | White | Damaged beyond repair by aircraft bombs on 11 April 1942; scrapped at Malta |
| F.91 | KIPLING | Yarrow | Sunk by aircraft bombs, 11 May 1942 |
| G.97 | NAPIER | Fairfield | Broken up in 1956 |
| G.25 | NEPAL (ex-NORSEMAN) | Thornycroft | Broken up in 1956 |
| 6.65 | NERISSA | Clydebank | To Poland as PIORUN; returned to Britain in 1946 and renamed NOBLE (ii); broken up in 1955 |
| G.02 | NESTOR | Fairfield | Sunk by aircraft bombs, 15 June 1942 |
| G.38 | NIZAM | John Brown | Broken up in 1955 |
| G.84 | NOBLE (ex-PIORUN, ex-NERISSA) | Denny | To Netherlands in 1942 as VAN GALEN; broken up in 1957 |
| G.16 | NONPAREIL | Denny | To Netherlands in 1942 as TJERK HIDDES; to Indonesia as GADJAH MADA in 1951; served as flagship until 1960; broken up in 1961 |
| G.49 | NORMAN | Thornycroft | Broken up in 1958 |
Notes: These ships were the first Royal Navy destroyers with longitudinal framing (aside from an experiment tried in ARDENT in 1913). They were also the first single-funneled British destroyers since 1895. The twin 4.7" mounts, introduced in the TRIBAL class, were standard. JUNO, KANDAHAR and KHARTOUM carried a single 4" AA gun in place of one torpedo mount. Up to four single 40mm Bofors and/or 10-20mm guns were added in surviving vessels by the end of World War II.
JERVIS, KELLY and NAPIER were all fitted as flotilla leaders. NAPIER, NESTOR, NIZAM and NORMAN were manned by Australian crews; NOBLE was manned by a Polish crew. In 1941, NOBLE and NONPAREIL were transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy and became the VAN GALEN and the TJERK HIDDES. KHARTOUM suffered an internal explosion from a burst torpedo air vessel, which led to her loss. JERVIS was at the Battle of Cape Matapan on 27-28 March 1941, where she torpedoed and sank the heavily-damaged Italian cruiser ZARA; she also rescued 258 Italian sailors from the POLA before JERVIS and NUBIAN each fired a torpedo into POLA, sinking her. JERVIS was badly damaged by an attack made by Italian two-man midget submarines at Alexandria on 18 December 1941; they placed charges under the tanker SAGONA (which JERVIS was moored alongside), as well as the battleships QUEEN ELIZABETH and VALIANT. Following repairs, JERVIS returned to active duty.
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Neptun 1163a |