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Thornycroft type destroyer leader

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Four more were ordered from Thornycroft in April 1918, but with the end of the War the first pair were completed by HM Dockyards and the second pair were cancelled; the second ship was initially named
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The design was used as the basis for several ships built for foreign navies in the 1920s.
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Two more vessels were ordered at the same time, to be built to this design by
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escort in 1939. Served mainly on east coast and during the
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The first two ships to this design were ordered under the
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Thornycroft
Royal Navy
Admiralty V-class leader
Admiralty type leader
Destroyer leader
o/a
Yarrow-type boilers
Brown-Curtis
BL 4.7 in (120 mm) Mark I guns
12 pdr (3 in) HA Mark VIII
21 inch (533 mm)
class
destroyer leaders
John I. Thornycroft & Company
Woolston, Southampton
Royal Navy
World War I
Royal dockyards
flag staff
flotilla
Admiralty type leader
Regele Ferdinand-class

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