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:
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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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