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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: von Lucky on December 05, 2015, 12:06:48 PM

Title: Help Requested - HMS Javelin and HMS Kashmir
Post by: von Lucky on December 05, 2015, 12:06:48 PM

Can someone tell me if (and if so, why) the HMS Javelin and HMS Kashmir swapped names:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-,_K-_and_N-class_destroyer

It's not making sense and my Google-fu is failing.

Title: Re: Help Requested - HMS Javelin and HMS Kashmir
Post by: tom_aargau on December 05, 2015, 12:33:35 PM

Seems they did. See here

http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1298&page=263

Title: Re: Help Requested - HMS Javelin and HMS Kashmir
Post by: von Lucky on December 06, 2015, 05:54:37 AM

Thanks for that. I think it's the why that's bugging me.

Title: Re: Help Requested - HMS Javelin and HMS Kashmir
Post by: tom_aargau on December 06, 2015, 06:51:32 AM

It was explained like this:

HMS Javelin was launched as a 'K class' destroyer and HMS Kashmir was launched as a 'J class' destroyer.
The 2 ships changed their respective names, so Javelin became Kashmir and Kasmir became Javelin to be in line with class names (K class having names starting with a K, J class having names staring with a J).