Broke 1925
Broke 1942
Keppel 1944
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Shakespeare | Thornycroft, Woolston | 10/1916 | 7/7/1917 | 10/1917 | BU 9/1936 | |
| Spencer | Thornycroft, Woolston | 10/1916 | 22/9/1917 | 12/1917 | BU 9/1936 | |
| Wallace | L64 | Thornycroft, Woolston | 8/1917 | 26/10/1918 | 2/1919 | BU 3/1945 |
| Keppel | D84 | Thornycroft, Woolston | 10/1918 | 23/4/1920 | 12/1924 | BU 7/1945 |
| Broke (ex-Rooke) | D83 | Thornycroft, Woolston / Pembroke DYd | 10/1918 | 16/9/1920 | 4/1925 | sunk 9/11/1942 |
| Saunders | Thornycroft, Woolston | 1918 | --- | --- | cancelled 4/1919 | |
| Spragge | Thornycroft, Woolston | 1918 | --- | --- | cancelled 4/1919 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1554 |
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Displacement full, t |
2000 |
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Length, m |
100.3 |
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Breadth, m |
9.60 |
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Draught, m |
3.80 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 4 Yarrow boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
40000 |
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Max speed, kn |
36 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 500 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
5000(15) |
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Armament |
5 x 1 - 120/45 BL Mk I, 1 x 1 - 76/45 QF Mk I HA, 2 x 1 - 40/39 pompom, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (25) |
| Sensors | sonar (part of class) |
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Complement |
183 |
Ship project history: The ships of Shakespeare and Scott classes were deeply modernized Lightfoot class leaders built in 1914. Hull has undergone the minimum changes, but machinery has been thus cardinally changed (twin shaft instead of triple; steam turbines with a direct drive were replaced by geared turbines) and essentially new armament consisted of five 120mm guns instead of four 102mm are established.
They were originally developed by Admiralty and Thornycroft (in an initiative order, they had to be armed by 6 102mm guns) in parallel, but then have been decided to unify design as much as possible for what variant of Thornycroft was a little redesigned, having changed armament of 5 127mm guns (as in the Admiralty variant). Soon 127mm guns in both designs have changed by army 120mm which adapted for sea conditions (127mm guns were then on a paper only). 2 40mm AA pompoms, 6 TT and 1 76mm AA gun supplemented armament.
Modernizations: mid-1930s, all: - 2 x 1 - 40/39
(10/1938 - 6/1939), Wallace: - 5 x 1 - 120/45, 1 x 1 - 76/45, 2 x 3 - 533 TT; + 2 x 2 - 102/45 QF Mk XVI, 1 x 4 - 40/39 pompom, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62
late 1940, Broke, Keppel: - 1 x 1 - 120/45 ("Q"); + 2 x 1 - 40/39 pompom, DCs stowage was 50 pcs.
1941, Broke, Keppel: - 1 x 1 - 120/45 ("Y"); + 2 DCT, 1 DCR (DCs stowage was 70 pcs)
early 1942, Broke: 1 boiler was removed, fuel stowage rose up to 575t, full displacement was 2280t. Engine power has fallen up to 25 000hp and maximal speed up to 28kts. - 1 x 1 - 120/45 ("A"); + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog DCT, 4 DCT (98 DC for 8 DCT and 2 DCR).
1942, Wallace: - 2 x 4 - 12.7/62; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon
1942, Keppel: - 1 x 1 - 120/45 ("A"); + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog DCT
late 1942, Broke; 1943, Keppel: - 2 x 1 - 40/39; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon
1944, Keppel: 1 boiler was removed, fuel stowage rose up to 575t, full displacement was 2280t. Engine power was reduced to 25 000hp and maximal speed to 28kts. - 1 x 1 - 120/45 ("A"); + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog DCT, 4 DCT (140 DC for 8 DCT and 2 DCR).
to 1945 , Wallace: + 2 x 1 - 40/39 pompom, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, DCs stowage rose up to 30 pcs. Full displacement was 2145t, fuel stowage was 409t.
Naval service: Broke 9/11/1942 was badly damaged by French coastal batteries at Algiers. She sunk next day at tow in 90nm NE of Oran.
Broke 1925
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