An item referred to the magazine N.M.R. dated 19 March 1936 reporting that the British Admiralty just like the foreign navies intended to built larger destroyers. The reporter hoped that the sloops also received more attention while their armament was still weak and not a match for the guns of the submarines used by the major naval powers. The Enchantress at that moment serving as an admiralty yacht but in fact to be used as escort vessels. Armed with 4-11,8cm guns were these vessels to be able to defeat every submarine. In the item was questioned why this design was not suitable as a base for new sloops. Not an armament of 15cm guns was a necessity but an increase of the speed with 2-3 miles and the ability to apply salvo gunfire.(1)
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1. The sloop-of-war HMS Enchantress was laid down on 9 March 1934 as the Bittern, launched as the Enchantress on 21 December 1934 at John Brown Shipbuilding&Engineering Company Limited, Clydebank, Scotland, completed om 8 April 1935, sold in 1946, renamed Lady Enchantress as a private owned ship and finally broken up in 1952. Of the Bittern-class with a speed of 18,75 knots. She was built as an admiral’s yacht with armament consisting of 2x1-4.7” on the fore ship and 4-3pd saluting guns.
