The
C and D class was a group of 14
destroyers built for the
Royal Navy in the early 1930s. As in previous years, it was originally intended to order a complete flotilla comprising eight destroyers—plus a
flotilla leader as the ninth unit—in each year. However, only four ships—plus a leader—were ordered under the 1929–30 Programme as the C class. The other four ships planned for the C class were never ordered as an economy measure and disarmament gesture by the
Labour government of
Ramsay Macdonald. A complete flotilla—the 'D' class—was ordered under the 1930–31 Programme.