Editing A- and B-class destroyer (section)

===A-class ships===
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|+ Construction data
|-
! scope="col" | Ship
! scope="col" | Navy
! scope="col" | Builder<ref name="ep15,26"/>
! scope="col" | [[Laid down]]<ref name="ep15,26">English (1993), pp. 15, 26</ref>
! scope="col" | [[Ceremonial ship launching|Launched]]<ref name="ep15,26"/>
! scope="col" | [[Ship commissioning|Commissioned]]<ref name="ep15,26"/>
! scope="col" | Fate
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Codrington|D65|2}}
| rowspan="9" | Royal Navy
| [[Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson]], [[Wallsend]]
| 20&nbsp;June 1928
| 8&nbsp;August 1929
| 4&nbsp;April 1930
| data-sort-value="27 July 1940" | Bombed and sunk off [[Dover]], 27&nbsp;July 1940
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Acasta|H09|2}}
| rowspan="2" | [[John Brown & Company]], [[Clydebank]]
| 13&nbsp;August 1928
| 8&nbsp;August 1929
| 11&nbsp;February 1930
| data-sort-value="8 June 1940" | Sunk by the German battleships {{ship|German battleship|Scharnhorst||2}} and {{ship|German battleship|Gneisenau||2}} off [[Narvik]], 8&nbsp;June 1940
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Achates|H12|2}}
| 11&nbsp;September 1928
| 4&nbsp;October 1929
| 11&nbsp;February 1930
| data-sort-value="31 December 1942" | Sunk by the German cruiser {{ship|German cruiser|Admiral Hipper||2}} in [[Battle of the Barents Sea]], 31&nbsp;December 1942
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Active|H14|2}}
| rowspan="2" | [[Hawthorn Leslie & Company]], [[Hebburn]]
| 10&nbsp;July 1928
| 9&nbsp;July 1929
| 9&nbsp;February 1930
| data-sort-value="7 July 1947" | Sold for breaking up, 7&nbsp;July 1947
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Antelope|H36|2}}
| 11&nbsp;July 1928
| 27&nbsp;July 1929
| 20&nbsp;February 1930
| data-sort-value="28 January 1946" | Sold for breaking up, 28&nbsp;January 1946
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Anthony|H40|2}}
| rowspan="2" | [[Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company]], [[Greenock]]
| rowspan="2" | 30&nbsp;July 1928
| 24&nbsp;April 1929
| 14&nbsp;February 1930
| data-sort-value="21 February 1948" | Sold for breaking up, 21&nbsp;February 1948
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Ardent|H41|2}}
| 26&nbsp;June 1929
| rowspan=2|14&nbsp;April 1930
| data-sort-value="8 June 1940" | Sunk by the German battleships ''Scharnhorst'' and ''Gneisenau'' off Narvik, 8&nbsp;June 1940
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Arrow|H42|2}}
| [[Vickers Armstrongs]], [[Barrow-in-Furness]]
| 20&nbsp;August 1928
| 22&nbsp;August 1929
| data-sort-value="4 August 1943" | Damaged by the explosion of SS ''Fort Lamontee'' in [[Algiers]], 4&nbsp;August 1943, and written off as a [[Marine insurance#Actual total loss and constructive total loss|constructive total loss]]
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMS|Acheron|H45|2}}
| rowspan="3" | [[John I. Thornycroft & Company]], [[Woolston, Hampshire|Woolston]]
| 29&nbsp;October 1928
| 18&nbsp;March 1930
| 13&nbsp;October 1931
| data-sort-value="17 December 1940" | Mined off the [[Isle of Wight]], 17&nbsp;December 1940
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMCS|Saguenay|D79|2}}
| rowspan="2" | Royal Canadian Navy
| 27&nbsp;September 1929
| 11&nbsp;July 1930
| 22&nbsp;May 1931
| data-sort-value="1945" | Damaged in a collision 15 November 1942 and de-rated to [[training ship]], sold for scrap 1945
|-
! scope="row" | {{HMCS|Skeena|D59|2}}
| 14&nbsp;October 1929
| 10&nbsp;October 1930
| 10&nbsp;June 1931
| data-sort-value="25 October 1944" | Wrecked in Kollafjord, Iceland, 25&nbsp;October 1944
|}