DD - HMS Ambuscade (D 38)

HMS Ambuscade (D 38)
HMS Ambuscade (D 38)
     
Name / Name : HMS "Ambuscade"
Type / Type : destroyer
Class / Class : prototype
Codename / Pennant : D38, I38 (may 1940 - ?)
Keel based /
Laid down :
08.12.1924
Run to the water /
Launched :
15.01.1926
Putting into service /
Commissioned by :
09.04.1927
Decommissioning / End of service : July 1945 (sold for scrap 23.11.1946, scrapped in march 1947)
Shipyard / Built by : Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd. in Scotstoun, Scotland
Duration / Length : (m) 98,14
Width / Beam : (m) 9,47
Draught / Draft : (m) 2,59
Displacement standard /
Displacement, standard :
(t)
1173
a Displacement of the maximum /
Displacement, maximal :
(t)
1585
Armour / Armour : (mm)
Crew / Complement : 138
Propulsion / Engines : 2x turbine Parsons
3x 4-drum boiler Yarrow
Power / Power : (HP) 35 500
Screws quantity /
Propellers, Well :
(pcs/m)
2
Speed / Speed : ( kts) 37,5
fuel Quantity / Fuel : (t) 385
Range at the speed /
Range :
( Nm/ kts)
3310/15
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)
2x 40 mm/MK.II (AA/2xI)
3x torpedo launchers 533 mm (1xIII)
1x Hedgehog


in 1943:
2x 120 mm/45 BL Mk.I (2xI)
4x 20 mm Oerlikon (AA/4xI)
2x Squid
1x thrower depth charges
Gear and equipment /
Equipment :
(radar asdic ...)
1939:
2x chute for the depth charge


in 1943:
2x chute for the depth charge
ASDIC Type 147X


from February 1945:
2x chute for the depth charge
ASDIC Type 147B
ASDIC Type 147F
Aeroplanes / Aircraft : -
Note / Note : commanders:
Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Oswald Johnson (21.03.1939 - 14.06.1940)
Lieutenant-Commander Robert Augustus Fell (14.06.1940 - 16.05.1942)
Lieutenant-Commander R.C. Peaks (16.05.1942 - 09.11.1942)
Lieutenant-Commander Donald Emberton Mansfield (09.11.1942 - 13.07.1943)
Lieutenant H. Hutchinson (13.07.1943 - 10.06.1944)
Lieutenant-Commander John Mayling (10.06.1944 - February 1945)
Lieutenant-Commander Harold Geeves Chesterman (feb 1945 - ?)


the translation of the names: snare


From June 1942 serve alternately as a target ship for the air force and the training ship.




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_Ambuscade_(D38)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ambuscade_(D38)
navalhistory.flixco.info
articles.gourt.com
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk
www.uboat.net
www.warshipsww2.eu
www.naval-history.net.
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