Brazilian Navy — Destroyer class
Acasta-class destroyer
Acasta class
The class in numbers
- 20 Completed
- 7 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Brazilian Navy
- Built
- 1912–1913
- In commission
- 1912–1923
- Preceded by
- Acheron-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- L class
- Operators
- Brazil
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 984 long tons (1,000 t)
- Length
- 81.38 m (267 ft)
- Speed
- 29 knots (53.7 km/h, 33.4 mph)
- Complement
- 75
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- Three QF 4 in L/40 Mark IV guns, mounting P Mk. IX (last 7 ships) else P Mk VII
- One QF 2-pounder pom-pom Mk. II
- 2 × single tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes
Roster
Holding 1 of the 20 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Porpoise (1913) | 1913 | 1922 | 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Acasta-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.