After Britain declared the treaty restrictions void in 1939, the Royal Navy acquired six H-class destroyers ordered by Brazil. Their lighter battery of three 4.7-inch guns came with an official allowance of 110 depth charges. Cammell Laird built HMS Inglefield, a larger flotilla leader armed with ten torpedoes in two quintuple mountings. Her quoted displacement was 1,568 tons standard and 2,114 tons at full load, with a complement of 175. Within this broad destroyer family, anti-submarine stores, foreign construction, and command accommodation produced different sizes and weapon fits.
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Brazilian H-class orders and HMS Inglefield
Brazilian-ordered H-class ships and the larger leader Inglefield show how international orders and command requirements complicated the Royal Navy's destroyer programme.