Editing A- and B-class destroyer (section)

==Service==
The class saw much service in the [[Second World War]], being involved in convoy protection and anti-submarine warfare in home waters and the North Atlantic. Seven of the eleven ships of the class were sunk in World War II. {{HMS|Acasta|H09|2}} and {{HMS|Ardent|H41|2}} were sunk on 8 June 1940 while escorting the aircraft carrier [[HMS Glorious|HMS ''Glorious'']] by the German battleships {{ship|German battleship|Scharnhorst||2}} and {{ship|German battleship|Gneisenau||2}} west of [[Narvik]] at the end of the [[Norwegian campaign]]. ''Codrington'' was sunk by German air attack at [[Dover]] on 27 July 1940. {{HMS|Acheron|H45|2}} was sunk by a mine off the [[Isle of Wight]] on 17 December 1940. {{HMS|Achates|H12|2}} was sunk by two large German heavy cruisers, {{ship|German cruiser|Admiral Hipper||2}} and [[German cruiser Deutschland|''Lützow'']] while defending an Arctic convoy in the [[Battle of the Barents Sea]]. {{HMS|Arrow|H42|2}} was so badly damaged when the ammunition ship {{SS|Fort La Montee||2}} blew up on 4 August 1943 at [[Algiers]] that she could not be repaired and was towed to [[Taranto]] and paid off. ''Skeena'' was wrecked in a storm off [[Iceland]] on 25 October 1944. ''Saguenay'' was heavily damaged in a collision with the merchant ship ''Azara'' and was consigned to the role of a training ship after being repaired.

The surviving ships were worn out from war duties and were scrapped soon after the war.