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HMS Acasta
A class destroyer built at Clydebank and launched
8th August 1929. HMS Acasta was sunk along with her sister ship HMS
Ardent during the action against the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst
and Gneisenau. but HMS Acasta did manage to Torpedo the Scharnhorst before
being sunk Displacement:
1,350 tons Speed: 35 Knots, Compliment: 138.
Armament: Four 4.7-inch guns two 2 pounder AA Guns and
eight Torpedo Tubes |
| HMS Acasta
H.09 |
8th August 1929 |
Sunk 8th June
1940. during the action with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau |
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HMS Acasta.
Original Postcard.
Published by P A Vickery c.1970. Price £15. Click here
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HMS Acasta, July 1935.
A
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HMS Acasta, January 1940. Photo supplied by
Gary Martin, see message board. |
HMS Acasta AA Crew, Jan 1940. Thanks to
Gary Martin, see message board. |
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The Crew of HMS Acasta, January 1940.
Photo
supplied by Gary Martin, see message board. |
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Crew members of HMS Acasta, 1940.
Group includes Able Seaman Victor Vincent McCullen, who
served at the Battle of Jutland, and was lost on Acasta on 8th June
1940. Contributed by his grandson Tim McCullen |
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Victor Vincent McCullen of HMS Acasta, photographed
in 1940.
Contributed by his grandson Tim McCullen. |
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Sister ships of HMS Acasta |
| HMS Codrington D.65 |
7th August 1929 |
Sunk in Dover Harbour on 27th
July 1940. |
| HMS Achates
H.12 |
4th October 1929 |
Sunk 31st
December 1942. in the Barents sea |
| HMS Acheron
H.45 |
18th March 1930 |
Mined and
sunk 17th
December 1940. |
| HMS Active
H.14 |
9th July 1929 |
Broken up 1947. |
| HMS Antelope
H.36 |
27th July 1929 |
Broken up 1946. |
| HMS Anthony
H.40 |
24th April 1929 |
Broken up 1948. |
| HMS Ardent
H.41 |
26th June 1929 |
Sunk 8th June
1940. during the action with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau |
| HMS Arrow
H.42 |
22nd August 1929 |
Damaged 4th
August 1943 and never repaired. |
| HMS Saguenay
D.79 (RCN) |
11th July 1930 |
Damaged in
collision and later used as a training ship in 1943. |
| HMS Skeena
D.59 (RCN) |
10th October 1930 |
Wrecked on 25th
October 1944. |
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CLIFFORD HIBBERT....
Please find
attached photos relating to Acasta that originally belonged to Clifford
Hibbert pictured front row 2nd left and who was lost with the ship. Photos
belong to Glynne Hibbert, nephew of the aforementioned. Gary
Martin
Addition........... In
the collection of photo's taken by my Uncle Clifford Hibbert there are
shown HMS Kelvin, HMS Windsor. Have you any details of their war numbers
and anything else about them. From my photo's these ships and Acasta were
together during January 1940. The photo of the Windsor is after dropping
depth charges, my next photo in Cliffords words on the photo is the end of
a U-boat, the one With Kelvin is searching for survivors, yet the war
office claim NO U-boat was ever sunk in January. I am keen to learn
as much as possible on my uncles ship HMS Acasta.
Glynne
Hibbert
FREDERICK
WD LEEWORTHY.. this is a message for Glynne Hibbert, I am very
interested in your pictures of HMS Acasta as my Wifes grandfather appears
to have served on this ship, do you know where i may be able to find a
list of the crew, I know he was not a board HMS acasta when she was sunk
as he died on board HMS Cromarty in 1943. Contact
Here
Any help you can give would be welcome regards Mark French
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