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Here we see the R class destroyer HMS Rigorous (G90) and the M class destroyer HMS Rapid (G78) in Gutter Sound at Scapa Flow in May 1917 when they were both part of the Fifteenth Destroyer Flotilla of the Grand Fleet.
© IWM Q 74160
British Destroyers From Earliest Days to the Second World War, Norman Friedman. A very detailed look at the design of British destroyers from their earliest roots as torpedo boat destroyers, though the First World War and up to the start of the Second World War, supported by vast numbers of plans and well chosen photographs [read full review]
