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HMS ACASTA SPECIFICATIONS

Ship Details

Nationality

Type

Builder

Yard Number

Ordered

Laid Down

Launched

Commissioned

Motto

Complement 

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Displacement

Standard

Full Load 

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Dimensions

Length (Waterline)

Length (Overall)

Beam

Draft 

 

Armament

Main Battery

Anti-Aircraft

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Torpedoes

Anti-Surface

 

 

Radars

Air Search

Surface Search

 

Sonars
 

 

Propulsion

Boilers

Turbines

Shafts

Horsepower

Endurance

Speed

Oil Bunkerage
 

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British

A Class destroyer

J. Brown, Clydebank, UK

525

6 March 1928

13 August 1928

8 August 1929

11 February 1930

Memores majoris : 'Remember your ancestors'

138 (higher at the time of sinking)

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1.350 tons

1.765 tons

 

 

95,1 m (312')

98,5 m (323')

9,8 m (32,25')

2,6 m (8,5')

 

 

4 x 4,7" (120 mm)/45 cal QF MkIX (4x1) design

2 x 40,5 mm (2pdr) MkII (2 x 1)
8 x 0,5"/62 cal MG MkIII (2 x 4) design. Replaced by 6 x 20 mm/65 cal Oerlikon MkV (single and twin mounts)
1 x 76 mm (12pdr) QF HA MkI added during wartime

8 x 533 mm (21") (2 x 4)

1 ATW Hedgehog 24 round mortar
2 racks for Mk.VIII 300 lb cannister depth charges

 

 

Type 291 Air Warning Radar (1944)

Type 123A Asdic with Electric Gyro Compass
Type 271 P/Q Radars
Type 86TBS aerials

Type 127 "Sword" depth detector

 

 

3 Admiralty 3 drum type

2 geared steam same as builder

2

34.000 shp

5.400 NM at 15 knots

35 Knots

400 tons
 

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