An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau reporting that seven British Acorn-class destroyers returned at Portland with heavy damages caused by trials executed in high seas and speeds up to 28 miles. The heavy impact force resulted in losing rivets allowing water to enter the fuel oil bunkers polluting the oil which became useless. Some hull plates were even heavily dented. The navy wondered what caused this problems considering the fact that the destroyers were very strongly built and for this reason was the maximum contract speed limited to just 27 miles.(1)
Note
1. The Acorn-class consisted of 21 destroyers preceded by the Beagle-class and succeeded by the Acheron-class.
Note
1. The Acorn-class consisted of 21 destroyers preceded by the Beagle-class and succeeded by the Acheron-class.
