英国是较早具有建造驱逐舰能力的国家之一,19世纪末就有了自己的驱逐舰。第二次世界大战时期,由于参战的需要,英国快速建造了大量的驱逐舰。战后,建造的数量减缓下来,50年代,总计只建造了1级8艘驱逐舰。至50年代末,英国现役军舰数量已为数不多,且武备还是以舰炮为主,一些新 The United Kingdom was one of the earlier countries with the capacity to build destroyers and had its own destroyers at the end of the 19th century. During the Second World War, Britain quickly built a large number of destroyers as a result of the war. After the war, the number of constructions slowed down. In the 1950s, a total of only eight destroyers of level 1 were built. By the end of the 1950s, the number of warships in service in the United Kingdom was one of the few, and the armed forces still dominated the naval gun. Some new