What surplus four-stackers would mean for smaller navies

How would Britain, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway and Imperial Russia use transferred four-stackers?

They would use them as valuable modern destroyers, though local strategy and political disruption would shape their employment.

The transferred four-stackers would be modern fleet destroyers rather than low-value surplus. Norway could retire older destroyers and torpedo boats while gaining a powerful group of fast units. The Netherlands would value their range and likely employ them in the East Indies, where long legs mattered. Britain and Canada could use them with the Grand Fleet or battlecruiser forces and also expand escort capacity. Imperial Russian ships might spend more time anchored or patrolling the Baltic before political upheaval passed them into Soviet hands. The same American design could be a routine reinforcement for a great power and a transformative fleet upgrade for a smaller navy.