DD - HMS Active (H 14)

HMS Active (H 14)
HMS Active (H 14)
     
Name / Name: HMS "Active"
Type / Type: destroyer
Class / Class: And class
Codename / Pennant: H14
Keel based /
Laid down:
10.07.1928
Run to the water /
Launched:
09.07.1929
Putting into service /
Commissioned by:
10.04.1930
Decommissioning / End of service: September 1945 (sold for scrap 29.05.1947)
Shipyard / Built by: R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie & Company in Hebburn on Tyne, United Kingdom
Duration / Length : (m) 98,45
Width / Beam: (m) 9,83
Draught / Draft: (m) 2,59
3,73 (max.)
Displacement standard /
Displacement, standard :
(t)
1350
a Displacement of the maximum /
Displacement, maximal:
(t)
1773
Armour / Armour: (mm)
Crew / Complement: 138
Propulsion / Engines: 2x steam turbine Thornycroft
3x 3-drum boiler Thornycroft
Power / Power: (HP) 34 000
Screws quantity /
Propellers, Well :
(pcs/m)
2
Speed / Speed: ( kts) 35
fuel Quantity / Fuel: (t) 380
Range at the speed /
Range :
( Nm/ kts)
4080/15
Armament / Armament : 4x 120 mm/45 Mk.IX (4xI)
2x 40 mm/Vickers Mk.II (AA/2xI)
8 torpedo launchers 533 mm (2xIV)


from February 1941:
3x 120 mm/45 Mk.IX (3xI)
1x 76 mm (AA)
2x 40 mm/Vickers Mk.II (AA/2xI)
2x 20 mm Oerlikon (AA/2xI)
4x torpedo launchers 533 mm (1xIV)
4x thrower depth charges


from April 1943:
3x 120 mm/45 Mk.IX (3xI)
6 20 mm/Oerlikon (AA/2xII,2xI)
4x torpedo launchers 533 mm (1xIV)
4x thrower depth charges


in 1944:
2x 120 mm/45 Mk.IX (2xI)
2x 57 mm/10 Mk.I (1xII)
8 20 mm Oerlikon (AA/2xII,4xI)
4x torpedo launchers 533 mm (1xIV)
4x thrower depth charges
Gear and equipment /
Equipment:
(radar asdic ...)
2x chute for the depth charge


from 1941:
radar Type 290
2x chute for the depth charge
ASDIC


from 1943:
radar Type 291
2x chute for the depth charge
ASDIC
Aeroplanes / Aircraft: -
Note / Note: commanders:
Commander Errol Concanon Lloyd Turner (01.05.1939 - February 1941)
Lieutenant-Commander Michael Wilfred Tomkinson (February 1941 - 01.01.1943)
Lieutenant-Commander Peter Gordon Merriman (01.01.1943 - 09.10.1944)
Commander John Pringle (09.10.1944 - November 1944)
Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Commander) John Aylmer McClure (November 1944 - ?)


Since 1946 served as a target ship.


translation of name: lively




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
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_class_destroyer
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Active_(H14)
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www.naval-history.net
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk
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www.navyphotos.co.uk.
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