Editing L and M-class destroyer (section)

==Ships==

===L class===
The '''L class''' (also known as the '''''Laforey''s''') were approved under the 1937 Naval Estimates. Four of these ships (''Lance'', ''Lively'', ''Legion'' and ''Larne'') were built with {{convert|4|in|mm|adj=on|0}} armament. Six of the eight were war losses, with the surviving pair being broken up in 1948.

{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Construction data
|-
! scope="col"|Ship
! scope="col"|Builder
! scope="col"|[[Laid down]]
! scope="col"|[[Ceremonial ship launching|Launched]]
! scope="col"|[[Ship commissioning|Commissioned]]
! scope="col"|Fate
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Laforey|G99|2}} ([[flotilla leader]])
| rowspan=2|[[Yarrow & Company]], [[Scotstoun]]
| 1 March 1939
| 15 February 1941
| 26 August 1941
| Sunk, 30 March 1944
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Lance|G87|2}}
| 1 March 1939
| 28 November 1940
| 13 May 1941
| Sunk, 9 April 1942
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Gurkha|G63|2}} (ex-''Larne'')
| rowspan=2|[[Cammell Laird & Company]], [[Birkenhead]]
| 18 October 1938
| 28 July 1940
| 18 February 1941
| Sunk, 17 January 1942
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Lively|G40|2}}
| 20 December 1938
| 28 January 1941
| 20 July 1941
| Sunk, 11 May 1942
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Legion|G74|2}}
| rowspan=2|[[Hawthorn Leslie & Company]], [[Hebburn]]
| 1 November 1938
| 26 December 1939
| 19 December 1940
| Sunk, 26 March 1942
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Lightning|G55|2}}
| 15 November 1938
| 22 April 1940
| 28 May 1941
| Sunk, 12 March 1943
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Lookout|G32|2}}
| rowspan=2|[[Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company]], [[Greenock]]
| 23 November 1938
| 4 November 1940
| 30 January 1942
| Broken up, 1948
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Loyal|G15|2}}
| 23 November 1938
| 8 October 1941
| 31 October 1942
| Broken up, 1948
|}

===M class===

The '''M Class''' were built under the 1939 Naval Estimates.  They served in the Home Fleet until 1944 and then went to the Mediterranean. Three were wartime losses; of the five survivors, the ''Musketeer'' was broken up in 1955 and the other four sold to Turkey in 1958.

{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Construction data
|-
! scope="col"|Ship
! scope="col"|Builder
! scope="col"|Laid down
! scope="col"|Launched
! scope="col"|Commissioned
! scope="col"|Fate
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Milne|G14|2}}
| rowspan=2|[[Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company]], [[Greenock]]
| 24 January 1940
| 30 December 1941
| 6 August 1942
| Transferred to Turkey, 1959, as ''Alp Arslan''
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Mahratta|G23|2}} (ex-''Marksman'')
| 7 July 1939
| 28 July 1942
| 8 April 1943
| Sunk by the {{GS|U-990||6}}, 25 February 1944
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Musketeer|G86|2}}
| rowspan=2|[[Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company]], [[Govan]]
| 7 December 1939
| 2 December 1941
| 5 December 1942
| Broken up, 6 December 1955
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Myrmidon|G90|2}}
| 7 December 1939
| 2 March 1942
| 5 December 1942
| Loaned to the Polish Navy and renamed [[ORP Orkan (G90)|ORP ''Orkan'']]. Sunk by submarine, 8 October 1943
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Matchless|G52|2}}
| rowspan=2|[[Alexander Stephen & Sons]], [[Linthouse]]
| 14 September 1940
| 4 September 1941
| 26 February 1942
| Transferred to Turkey, 1959, as ''Kilicali Pasha''
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Meteor|G74|2}}
| 14 September 1940
| 3 November 1941
| 12 August 1942
| Transferred to Turkey, 1959, as ''Piyale Pasha''
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Marne|G35|2}}
| rowspan=2|[[Vickers-Armstrongs]], [[Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne|Walker]]
| 23 October 1939
| 30 October 1940
| 2 December 1941
| Transferred to Turkey, 1959, as ''Maresal Fevzi Cakmak''
|-
! scope="row"|{{HMS|Martin|G44|2}}
| 23 October 1939
| 12 December 1940
| 4 August 1942
| Sunk by submarine, 10 November 1942
|}