HMS Achates (H12)
Service
- as Achates27 March 1930 — 31 December 19421,214 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Achates
- Pennant / hull number
- H12
- Builder
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank
- Ordered
- 6 March 1928
- Laid down
- 11 September 1928
- Launched
- 4 October 1929
- Commissioned
- 27 March 1930
- Fate
- Sunk, Battle of the Barents Sea, 31 December 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,773 long tons (1,801 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.75 m (32 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Range
- 4,800 nmi (8,890 km)
- Complement
- 134
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Achates was a A-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H12. Her keel was laid at John Brown & Company, Clydebank on 11 September 1928. She entered service on 27 March 1930, having been launched on 4 October 1929.
Her class ran to eleven ships. The class followed the HMS Ambuscade (D38) and HMS Amazon (D39) and was succeeded by the C and D-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,350 long tons standard and 1,773 long tons at full load. She measured 98.5 m (323 ft) long with a beam of 9.8 m (32 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 134.
Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 34,000 shp.
She was in commission for 1,214 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 31 December 1942, at 73°18′N 30°06′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 34000 shp
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 2 × single 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 6 × depth charges, 3 chutes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Achates (H12) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 10639 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons