Ship Class: HMS A Class

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Ship Class	HMS A Class


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Ship	HMS Acasta HMS Achates HMS Acheron HMS Active HMS Antelope HMS Anthony HMS Ardent HMS Arrow
Ship Type	Destroyer
Destroyer Type	Fleet Destroyer

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: Developed By Country	3) 2: Flag	4) 1: First Laid Down	5) 1: Last Disposed
	Great Britain		1928 Jul 10	1947 Aug 18

Ship Classes
	Standard Displacement	Length Overall	Beam	Draught	Complement	Class Complement
	1 350ton	98.4m	9.83m	3.73m	138	1 104

Ship Classes
	Shafts	Main Engines	Max Speed	Machinery Type	Boilers	Boiler Pressure	Boiler Temperature Degree Fahrenheit
	2	34 000hp	35.25kt	Steam Turbine	3	300psi	620

Ship Classes
	Bunkerage	Range	Cruising	Cruising Endurance
	380ton	4 800mile	15kt	11.586day

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: Improved In Ship Class	3) 2: as Class Improvement
	HMS B Class	N
	HMS B Leader - Keith	N

Ship Classes
1)	2) 1: As Built Armament	3) 2:Turret Model	4) 3:Image	5) 2:Torpedo Model	6) 1: Installed With Sensor	7) 6:	8) 6:Image
	Mine Sweep Two Speed Destroyer Sweep				BR Director Destroyer Director Sight
	Gun 4 X BR 4.7in 45cal QF Mark IX CP XIV 30deg Single	BR 4.7in 45cal QF Mark IX CP XIV 30deg Single			BR, Director, Optical Rangefinder MQ 1
	Gun BR 2pdr 40cal Mark II Single	BR 2pdr 40cal Mark II Single
	Torpedo 8 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
	8	Hawthorn Leslie At Hebburn John Brown At Clydebank Scotts Thornycroft At Woolston Vickers Armstrong At Barrow	221 000	161.1	1 768 000

Ship Classes
	Potentially Involved In Tension	Operated As Formation	Involved In Activity	Covered By Assignment
	1889 1946 Great Britain Germany 1917 1941 Great Britain Russia 1922 1944 Great Britain Italy 1935 1945 Great Britain Japan	RN 13th Destroyer Flotilla \| RN 16th Destroyer Flotilla \| RN 18th Destroyer Flotilla \| RN 1st Destroyer Flotilla	1940 May 27 British Evacuation Operation Dynamo Dunkerque 1940 06 08 0000 Surface Action Glorious Sunk By Scharnhorst And Gneisenau Norwegian Sea 1940 07 03 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Mers El Kebir, Algeria	1930-May-01 HMS Acasta - HMS Achates - HMS Acheron - HMS Active - HMS Antelope - HMS Anthony - HMS Ardent - HMS Arrow - RN 3rd Destroyer Flotilla 1939-Jan-01 HMS Active - RN 13th Destroyer Flotilla 1939-Jan-01 HMS Amazon - HMS Acasta - HMS Achates - HMS Acheron - HMS Antelope - HMS Anthony - HMS Ardent - HMS Arrow - RN 18th 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]	97	N

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