DD - HMS Acasta (H 09)

HMS Acasta (H 09)
HMS Acasta (H 09)
     
Name / Name: HMS "Acasta"
Type / Type: destroyer
Class / Class: And class
Codename / Pennant: H09
Keel based /
Laid down:
13.08.1928
Run to the water /
Launched:
08.08.1929
Putting into service /
Commissioned by:
11.02.1930
Decommissioning / End of service: sunk 08.06.1940 near Narvik
Shipyard / Built by: John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. in Clydebank, Scotland
Duration / Length : (m) 98,45
Width / Beam: (m) 9,83
Draught / Draft: (m) 2,59
3,73 (max.)
Displacement standard /
Displacement, standard :
(t)
1350
a Displacement of the maximum /
Displacement, maximal:
(t)
1773
Armour / Armour: (mm)
Crew / Complement: 138 (peace)
194 (war)
Propulsion / Engines: 2x steam turbine
3x 3-drum boiler Admiralty
Power / Power: (HP) 34 000
Screws quantity /
Propellers, Well :
(pcs/m)
2
Speed / Speed: ( kts) 35
fuel Quantity / Fuel: (t) 380
Range at the speed /
Range :
( Nm/ kts)
4080/15
Armament / Armament : 4x 120 mm/45 Mk.IX (4xI)
2x 40 mm/Vickers Mk.II (AA/2xI)
8 torpedo launchers 533 mm (2xIV)
Gear and equipment /
Equipment:
(radar asdic ...)
2x chute for the depth charge


from 1938:
ASDIC type 123A
2x chute for the depth charge
Aeroplanes / Aircraft: -
Note / Note: commanders:
Commander Percy J. Oliver (August 1939 - 28.11.1939)
Commander Charles Eric Glasfurd (28.11.1939 - 08.06.1940)




Sources:
PEJČOCH, Ivo, NOVÁK, Zdeněk, HÁJEK, Tomáš: warships[4]. 1.edition. Prague: Our troops p. p. 1993. 374s. ISBN 80-206-0357-3
HRBEK, Ivan HRBEK, Jaroslav: the Fleet of the states participating in the second world war. 1.edition. Prague: Our army, 1994. 232s. ISBN 80-206-0245-3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Acasta_(H09)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_class_destroyer
navalhistory.flixco.info
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk
www.uboat.net
www.scharnhorst-class.dk
www.glarac.com/Ships/HMS-Acasta.htm
www.naval-history.net
www.hmscavalier.org.uk/H09/.
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