The V and W classes are commonly grouped together because their designs are very similar. A common hull accommodated slightly different operational concepts, giving a reason to examine the classes separately. Both combined ideas developed through the M, R and S classes and other earlier destroyers. The newer ships developed those ideas further. Their influence extended into much of the Royal Navy's interwar and Second World War destroyer design.
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The V and W classes and their shared design inheritance
A shared hull and experience from earlier classes explain why V and W destroyers are grouped together and how they influenced later designs.