Had such mean destroyers in WW2?

Statting them up.....

The Le Fantasque class, Vauquelin and Mogador.

Mean 5" guns, obtainable speeds of nearly 40 knots, and BIG.

If they were really equipped with their best torps (1925) -- they can hit you at 7 hexes and do X6 damage?  OUCH.  Course, maybe the damn things were faulty.

Not like they saw any real combat anyway.