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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Bath (ex-Bath, ex-Hopewell)	I17		Newport News, USA	1/1918	8.6.1918	3/1919 // 4.1941	sunk 19.8.1941
Lincoln (ex-Lincoln, ex-Yarnall)	G42		Cramp, Philadelphia, USA	2/1918	19.6.1918	11/1918 // 6.1942	to UK 2.1944 (Lincoln)
Mansfield (ex-Mansfield, ex-Evans)	G76		Bath Iron Wks, USA	12/1917	30.10.1918	11/1918 // 12.1940	to UK 2.1942 (Mansfield)
Newport (ex-Newport, ex-Sigourney)	G54		Bethlehem, Quincy, USA	8/1917	16.12.1917	5/1918 // 10.1941	to UK 6.1942 (Newport)
St. Albans (ex-St. Albans, ex-Thomas)	I15		Newport News, USA	3/1918	4.7.1918	4/1919 // 4.1941	to UK 2.1944 (St. Albans)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	Bath, Newport, St. Albans: 1060 Lincoln, Mansfield: 1090
Displacement full, t	Bath, Newport, St. Albans: 1360 Lincoln, Mansfield: 1390
Length, m	94.5 wl 95.8 oa
Breadth, m	9.40
Draught, m	2.80
No of shafts	2
Machinery	exact data is not available in many cases, following machinery composition is somewhat conjectural Bath, St. Albans: 2 sets General Electric Curtis geared steam turbines, 4 Thornycroft boilers Newport: 2 Curtis steam turbines / 1 geared steam turbine for cruising, 4 Yarrow boilers Mansfield: 2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Normand boilers Lincoln: 2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 White-Forster boilers
Power, h. p.	Bath, Lincoln, St. Albans: 26000 Mansfield: 24200 Newport: 27000
Max speed, kts	35 Mansfield: 32
Fuel, t	oil 275
Endurance, nm(kts)	4300(14)
Armament	Bath, Mansfield, Newport: 3 x 1 - 102/50 Mk 9, 1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk I/II/III/IV, 3 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (60) St. Albans: 3 x 1 - 102/50 Mk 9, 1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk I/II/III/IV, 1 x 1 - 76/23 Mk 14, 3 x 1 - 12.7/90, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (60) Lincoln: 1 x 1 - 102/50 Mk 9, 1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk I/II/III/IV, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (60)
Electronic equipment	type 141 sonar Lincoln presumably: type 271, type 286 radars, type 141 sonar
Complement	146

Standard scale images

Project history

Former British destroyers of "Town" class (ex-USN flushdeckers). Part from them served under national colours, part under British, but with Norwegian crews. English names did not change.

Modernizations

1942 - 1943, Mansfield: - 2 x 1 - 102/50, 1 x 3 - 533 TT; + (2 - 4) x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV or 2 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog DCT. TT was moved to center line.

1943-1944, presumably survived: - type 286 radar; + type 291 radar

Naval service

Bath 19.8.1941 was sunk in Northern Atlantic by German submarine U204 (under other version U201).