In article ,
Keith Willshaw wrote:
Correction Britain scrapped a handful of elderly destroyers as
they were replaced by more modern ships, these were mostly
ships built before or during the early part of WW1 which were simply
clapped out and too small to useful

Not quite true, Keith: A lot of the ships scrapped were V/Ws or
(more commonly) R & S class destroyers, other examples of
which gave useful war service. However, most of these ships
were WW1 war emergency programme ships which had been built
using non-galvanised steel and so were in poor condition
- hence their scrapping. D.K. Brown has some comments on
the unwisdom of not re-using some of the machinery from
these ships in the escort build-up, but the destroyers
themselves were no asset.


Destroyer building in the 10 years before Sept 3 1939 produced
the following ships

Good stuff snipped.

Interesting to note that both DNC (Goddall) in 1939-41 and Brown
in his re-examination of the period consider that one of the failings
of the RN pre-war was not to scrap ENOUGH of the old and only marginally
useful ships[1] - the manpower they absorbed would have been far more
useful in manning the modern ships coming into service.

Example: Frobisher..

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