| Name / Name : | HMS "Amazon" | |
| Type / Type : | destroyer | |
| Class / Class : | prototype | |
| Codename / Pennant : | D39, H39 (? - may 1940) I39 (may 1940 - 1944) | |
| Keel based / Laid down : | 29.01.1925 | |
| Run to the water / Launched : | 27.01.1926 | |
| Putting into service / Commissioned by : | 05.05.1927 | |
| Decommissioning / End of service : | December 1944 (scrapped 06.10.1948) | |
| Shipyard / Built by : | John Also. Thornycroft & Company Ltd. in Woolstonu, United Kingdom | |
| Duration / Length : (m) | 98,45 | |
| Width / Beam : (m) | 9,60 | |
| Draught / Draft : (m) | 2,90 | |
| Displacement standard / Displacement, standard : (t) | 1352 | |
| a Displacement of the maximum / Displacement, maximal : (t) | 1812 | |
| Armour / Armour : (mm) | | |
| Crew / Complement : | 138 | |
| Propulsion / Engines : | 2x turbine Brown-Curtis 3x 3-drum boiler Yarrow | |
| Power / Power : (HP) | 42 000 | |
| Screws quantity / Propellers, Well : (pcs/m) | 2 | |
| Speed / Speed : ( kts) | 37,5 | |
| fuel Quantity / Fuel : (t) | 433 | |
| Range at the speed / Range : ( Nm/ kts) | 3400/15 5340/12,5 | |
| Armament / Armament : | 4x 120 mm/45 BL Mk.I (4xI) 2x 40 mm/MK.II (AA/2xI) 6 torpedo launchers 533 mm (2xIII) 1939: 2x 120 mm/45 BL Mk.I (2xI) 1x 76 mm/Mk.IN (AA) 4x 20 mm Oerlikon (AA/4xI) 3x torpedo launchers 533 mm (1xIII) 1x Hedgehog after 1943: 2x 120 mm/45 BL Mk.I (2xI) 4x 20 mm Oerlikon (AA/4xI) 1x Hedgehog 1x thrower depth charges | |
| Gear and equipment / Equipment : (radar asdic ...) | 1939: 2x chute for the depth charge 1x radar Type 286P 1x radar Type 271 from 1943: 2x chute for the depth charge 1x radar Type 291 1x radar Type 271 | |
| Aeroplanes / Aircraft : | - | |
| Note / Note : | commanders: Lieutenant-Commander Nigel Edward Godfrey Roper (01.05.1939 - may 1942) Lieutenant-Commander Lord Tynham (may 1942 - 30.03.1943) Lieutenant-Commander Denis Harold Palmer Gardiner (30.03.1943 - 01.09.1943) Lieutenant-Commander George Blackler (01.09.1943 - 03.01.1944) Lieutenant-Commander H.P. Byrne (10.07.1944 - February 1945) Lieutenant-Commander C.L. Beale (February 1945 - 05.04.1945) Lieutenant-Commander Jack Ruan Crothers (05.04.1945 - ?) translation of the name: Amazon From November 1943 served as target ship for the air force. | |
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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
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HMS Amazon v roce 1926 během zkoušek
HMS Amazon v říjnu 1934
HMS Amazon v červenci 1935
HMS Amazon ve vlnách Atlantiku v roce 1942