Ship Class: HMS Ambuscade

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Ship Class	HMS Ambuscade

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Ship	HMS Ambuscade

Ship Type	Destroyer
Destroyer Type	Fleet Destroyer
Ship Class Attribute	Unusual

	Summary
	Unusual for a destroyer to have 3 shafts when the technology was advanced enough to allow only 2.

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: Developed By Country	3) 2: Flag	4) 1: First Laid Down	5) 1: Last Disposed
	Great Britain		1924 Dec 08	1947 Mar 01

Ship Classes
	Standard Displacement	Length Overall	Beam	Draught	Complement	Class Complement
	1 173ton	98.14m	9.45m	2.59m	138	138

Ship Classes
	Shafts	Main Engines	Max Speed	Machinery Type	Boilers
	3	35 500hp	37kt	Steam Turbine	3

Ship Classes
	Bunkerage	Range	Cruising	Cruising Endurance
	385ton	3 310mile	15kt	7.99day

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: As Built Armament	3) 2:Turret Model	4) 2:Torpedo Model	5) 1: Installed With Sensor	6) 5:	7) 5:Image
	Gun 4 X BR 4.7in 45cal BL Mark I CP Mark VI Single	BR 4.7in 45cal BL Mark I CP Mark VI Single		BR, Director, Optical Rangefinder MQ 1
	Gun BR 2pdr 40cal Mark II Single	BR 2pdr 40cal Mark II Single		BR Director Destroyer Director Sight
	Torpedo 6 X BR 21in Mark V		BR 21in Mark V

Ship Classes
	Number In Class	Built By Shipbuilder	Building Cost Per Ship Pound Sterling	Building Cost Per Ship Pounds Sterling Per Ton	Class Building Cost Pound Sterling
	1	Thornycroft At Woolston	326 000	273.5	326 000

Ship Classes
	Potentially Involved In Tension	Covered By Assignment
	1889 1946 Great Britain Germany 1917 1941 Great Britain Russia 1922 1944 Great Britain Italy 1935 1945 Great Britain Japan	1941_Jan_01 HMS Amazon - HMS Ambuscade - RN 12th Destroyer Flotilla

Documents
1) Covered By Document	2) 1: as Document Reference	3) 2: Page Number	4) 3: as
Destroyers Of World War Two	[More]	96	N

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