NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Exmouth	H02		Portsmouth DYd	5.1933	7.2.1934	10.1934	sunk 21.1.1940
Faulknor	H62		Yarrow, Scotstoun	7/1933	12.6.1934	5/1935	BU 1.1946

Technical data

Max speed, kts, kn	36.75
Displacement standard, t	1460 - 1495
Displacement full, t	2009 - 2049 (later 2200)
Length, m	101.2 pp 104.5 oa
Breadth, m	10.3
Draught, m	3.81 (later 4.04) deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	38000
Fuel, t	oil 471
Endurance, nm(kts)	6500(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)
Electronic equipment	type 121 sonar
Complement	175

Standard scale images

Project history

After a building of three flotillas (1928, 1929 and 1930 Programmes) in which leaders had the same sizes, as destroyers, Admiralty have come to conclusion about an inaccuracy of similar practice and necessity of return to larger leaders. It has been decided, that the leader of the 1931 Programme should become the improved Codrington with enlarged fuel stowage and by 0.5kts faster. Especially it was attended to decrease of tactical diameter: memories of disgusting manoeuvrability of Codrington were still fresh.

In the design armament of the leader differed from accepted for destroyers by additional main gun and two 76mm AA guns. Latter at a phase of designing were refused.

The leader of the 1932 Programme ("F") became an exact copy of "Е". At the expense of higher culture of bulding Faulknor, unlike Exmouth built on Navy Yard, exceeded contract speed on 1kt. (Exmouth on the contrary not get 1kt).

Modernizations

late 1940, Faulknor: - 1 x 4 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 76/45 QF Mk I/II/III/IV

1941, Faulknor: + 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, 1 DCR (39 DC)

1942, Faulknor: - 1 x 1 - 120/45, 4 x 4 - 12.7/62; + 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 4 - 533 TT, type 285, type 286P radars

1943, Faulknor: + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1944, Faulknor: - 1 x 1 - 120/45, 2 x 1 - 20/70; + 1 x 4 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1/1946, Faulknor: 3 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk XVII, 1 x 1 - 76/45 Mk II, 1 x 4 - 40/39 Mk VII, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (39), type 285, type 286P radars

Naval service

Exmouth 21.1.1940 was sunk by German submarine U22 in Moray Firth Bay (Northern Scotland).