HMS Savage as a Battle-class gun test bed

A photograph in the naval-battles survey draws attention to HMS Savage's unusual main battery. She carried a twin 4.5-inch mounting forward and a single 4.5-inch gun aft instead of a uniform arrangement. Savage tested the twin mounting later adopted by the Battle-class destroyers. Her mixed battery makes the ship a visible intermediate step in wartime destroyer development. The photograph gives a concise example of an experimental installation feeding directly into a new class.