Allied Warships


Destroyers

S class

8 ships


The S class destroyer HMS Savage.

Technical information

TypeDestroyer
Displacement1710 BRT 
Length363 feet 
Complement180 men 
ArmamentAs designed;
4 4.5" guns (4x1)
2 40mm AA (1x2)
6 20mm AA (2x2, 2x1)
8 21" torpedo tubes 
Max speed37 knots
EnginesGeared turbines, 2 shafts 
Power40000 HP 
Notes on class

The S Class destroyers were built as the 5th Emergency Flotilla and consisted of 8 ships.

HMS Savage carried a twin 4.5" gun turret in 'A' position. This was an exerimental turret designed to be fitted in the 'Battle'-class destroyers. Savage had no single 4.5" gun fitted in 'B' position, So like her sisters she had also 4 4.5" guns fitted. 


All ships of the S class:

Royal Navy (more on Royal Navy)

HMS Shark (ii) (G 03) (Became the Norwegian destroyer Svenner.)
HMS Success (G 26) (Became the Norwegian destroyer Stord)
HMS Savage (G 20)
HMS Scorpion (G 72)
HMS Scourge (G 01)
HMS Serapis (G 94)
HMS Swift (G 46) (lost 24 Jun 1944)

Royal Norwegian Navy (more on Royal Norwegian Navy)

HNoMS Stord (G 26) (ex. HMS Success (G 26))
HNoMS Svenner (G 03) (ex. HMS Shark (G 03)) (lost 6 Jun 1944)

Flotilla leader

Royal Navy (more on Royal Navy)

HMS Saumarez (G 12)

2 destroyers of the S class lost.



The last stand of the tin can sailors

Hornfischer, James D.

Books dealing with this subject include:

200,000 Miles Aboard the Destroyer Cotten, Robinson, C. Snelling, 1999
Afridi to Nizam – British Fleet Destroyers 1937 – 43, English, John, 2003
Blood on the Sea, Parkin, Robert Sinclair, 1996
A Blue Water Navy, WAB Douglas, R. Sarty, M. Whitby et al., 2007
British destroyers & frigates, Norman Friedman, 2006
British Destroyers 1892 to 1953, March, Edgar J, 2003
British Destroyers in World War Two, Burt, R.A., 1986
Cadillac of Destroyers, Barrie, Ron and Macpherson, Ken, 1996
Cape Hatteras, Lloyd, Keith Warren, 2008
Capturing Enigma, Harper, Stephen, 2000 (transl.)
Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946, Chesneau, Roger, 1988
The Court-Martial of Ensign Mason, Nash, Edgar M., 2001
DD 522 : Diary of a destroyer, Surels, Ron, 1996
Deadly Seas, Bercuson, David Jay and Herwig, Holger H., 1997 (transl.)
Destroyer, Brookes, Ewart, 1973



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