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Revision as of 15:15, 30 May 2014

H.M.S. Acasta (1912)
Pendant Number: H.59 (1914)
H.00 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown[2]
Launched: 10 Sep, 1912[3]
Sold: May, 1921[4]

H.M.S. Acasta was one of twenty destroyers of the Acasta class.

Service

At the Battle of Jutland, she operated with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla under the command of Lieutenant-Commander John O. Barron. She was holed fore and aft while screening the Third Battle Cruiser Squadron, being obliged to hoist the signal "Am in danger of sinking,"[5] though she claimed having torpedoed the leading enemy battlecruiser.[6] On 2nd June, she was taken under tow by Nonsuch to Aberdeen. She made Aberdeen with the assistance of a trawler at 9.15 p.m. on the 2nd.[7]

In July 1918, Acasta was attached to Vernon in Portsmouth.[8]

In 1919, she tested the experimental 21-in Mark VI torpedo from a special tube. It was a notable failure and further work was abandoned.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  5. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 14, 18, 34, 44.
  6. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 307.
  7. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 30, 32.
  8. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (July, 1918). p. 16.
  9. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1919. p. 13.
  10. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 391.
  11. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391a.
  12. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 722.

Bibliography


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