Hardy 1940
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Grenville | H03 | Yarrow, Scotstoun | 9/1934 | 15.8.1935 | 7/1936 | sunk 19.1.1940 | |
| Hardy | H87 | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead | 5/1935 | 7.4.1936 | 12/1936 | sunk 10.4.1940 | |
| Inglefield | D02 - I02 | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead | 4/1936 | 15.10.1936 | 6/1937 | sunk 25.2.1944 |
|
Displacement standard, t |
Grenville: 1465 Hardy: 1455 Inglefield: 1544 |
|
Displacement full, t |
Grenville: 2033 Hardy: 2053 Inglefield: 2081, later 2270 |
|
Length, m |
99.4 pp 102.7 oa Grenville: 97.2pp 100.6 oa |
|
Breadth, m |
10.4 Grenville: 10.5 |
|
Draught, m |
3.89 (Inglefield later 4.11) |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers Grenville: 2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
38000 |
|
Max speed, kn |
36.5 |
|
Fuel, t |
oil 470 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 5500(15) |
|
Armament |
5 x 1 - 120/45 QF Mk IX, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20 DC) Inglefield: 5 x 1 - 120/45 QF Mk IX, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, 2 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20 DC) |
|
Sensors |
"G": type 121 sonar "H", "I": type 124 sonar |
|
Complement |
178 |
Project history: As well as in a case with "G" class destroyers, leader of the 1933 Programme should become repetition of the predecessors of 1931-1932 Programmes ("Å" and "F" classes) but by 1.8m shorter at the expense of abandoning from cruiser turbines and smaller engine rooms length. Already after the approving of working design the builder (Yarrow) have made the changes concerning machinery: ship was equipped with original boilers with aside furnaces arrangement instead of usual Admiralty boilers, for the first time they applied on Yugoslavian leader Dubrovnik, built by Yarrow in 1932. These boilers with economizers and a superheated steam placed longitudinally, giving decreasing of length of engine room by 2.5m. In remaining the ship differed from leaders of "Å" and "F" classes a little.
Leaders of "Í" and "I" classes repeated Grenville, with that only a variance, that Hardy received new gun mounts, and Inglefield quintupled TTs.
Modernizations: summer 1940, Inglefield: - 1 x 5 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 76/45 QF Mk I/II/III/IV1942, Inglefield: - 1 x 1 - 120/45, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, 1 x 5 - 533 TT; + 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT (38 DC totally), type 286 radar
Naval service: Grenville 19.1.1940 was mined SE of Haridge and sunk. Hardy 10.4.1940 was badly damaged by artillery of German destroyers Giese, Koellner, Zenker, Arnim and Thiele at Narvik and ran aground. Inglefield 25.2.1944 was sunk by German Hs293 gliding bomb launched by Do 217 bomber off Anzio.
Grenville 1936
© Ivan Gogin, 2008-10