HMS Ashanti (F51)
Service
- as Ashanti21 December 1938 — 19492,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Ashanti
- Pennant / hull number
- F51
- Namesake
- Ashanti people
- Builder
- William Denny, Dumbarton
- Ordered
- 19 June 1936
- Laid down
- 23 November 1936
- Launched
- 5 November 1937
- Commissioned
- 21 December 1938
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1949 (1949)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,891 long tons (1,921 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,519 long tons (2,559 t)
- Length
- 114.91 m (377 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,700 nmi (10,556 km)
- Complement
- 190
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Ashanti was a Tribal-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number F51. She was named for Ashanti people. Her keel was laid at William Denny, Dumbarton on 23 November 1936. She entered service on 21 December 1938, having been launched on 5 November 1937.
Her class ran to 24 ships. The class followed the I-class destroyer and was succeeded by the J class.
Displacement was 1,891 long tons standard and 2,519 long tons at full load. She measured 114.9 m (377 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 190.
Her main battery was eight 119 mm (4.7 in) guns in four twin mountings. Her machinery developed 44,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1949.
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
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 44000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 1 × quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) anti-aircraft machineguns
- 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers
Sister ships
- HMAS Arunta (I30)
- HMAS Bataan
- HMAS Warramunga (I44)
- HMCS Athabaskan (G07)
- HMCS Haida
- HMCS Huron (G24)
- HMCS Iroquois (G89)
- HMCS Nootka (R96)
- HMS Afridi (F07)
- HMS Bedouin
- HMS Cossack (F03)
- HMS Eskimo (F75)
- HMS Gurkha (F20)
- HMS Maori (F24)
- HMS Mashona
- HMS Matabele
- HMS Mohawk (F31)
- HMS Nubian (F36)
- HMS Punjabi
- HMS Sikh (F82)
- HMS Somali
- HMS Tartar (F43)
- HMS Zulu (F18)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Ashanti (F51) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Claude Henry Parnall — This photograph A 7512 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons