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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