Kimberley regularly escorted major units such as Rodney, Valiant and Repulse, adding firepower and protection to the fleet. Her anti-submarine equipment included twenty depth charges, a single rack and two throwers, alongside anti-aircraft guns and torpedoes for surface action. For a dedicated submarine hunt, a Hunt-class escort destroyer is the preferred choice in this comparison. The Black Swan-class sloops are rated even more highly for that role in the early and middle war. Fleet destroyers remained useful across anti-submarine work, surface fighting and fleet escort because their design combined those capabilities.
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Fleet-destroyer generalists and Hunt-class specialists
A Hunt-class escort could be the better submarine hunter, while a J or K fleet destroyer combined anti-submarine, anti-surface, and screening capabilities.